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almsman
1. One supported by alms, or by funds bequeathed for the support of the poor; a bedesman. Also fig.
a1000Sax. Leechd. I. 400 Ðonne nime man uncuþ sæd æt ælmesmannum. 1205Layam. 19662 Nu wenden forð þa cnihtes..On ælmes-monnes claðes. 1440Promp. Parv., Almesmann, Elimosinarius. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 149 My gay Apparrell, for an Almes-mans Gowne. 1649Bp. Hall Cases of Consc. iii. vii. (1654) 229 Ye proud ignorants, that call your ministers your almes-men. 1820Keats Isabella xiii, Bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. v. 120 The garb of the fourteenth century is still seen in the almsman's gaberdine.
2. An almsgiver. arch.
1483Caxton G. de la Tour c iij b, [He] was a grete almes-man to the poure. 1587Holinshed Chron. III. 835/1 He was a good almes-man, and greatly releeued the needie. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. vi. 511 King John also was a great almsman. |