单词 | sub-cellarer |
释义 | sub-cellarern. Now chiefly historical. An assistant to the cellarer in a convent or monastery, typically supervising the provision of food and drink; an under-cellarer. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > monastic functionary > cellarer > [noun] > assistant suthselererec1430 southcellarerc1450 sub-cellarer?a1500 ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 780/23 Subselarius, a subselerer. 1539 B. Willis Hist. Mitred Parl. Abbies (1718) I. 402 Herafter ensuyeth the Names of the lat Abbott and Monks there, wyth theyr Pencions assigned..John Amyson alias Downham Subcellerer. c1702 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 374 She was imployd..as subcellerere; Mrs of Novices, Conseler, and ward-robe. 1844 C. MacFarlane Camp of Refuge I. x. 160 Now for this high festival the subcellarer brought forth this ancient and royal drinking-horn. 1865 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. Dec. 303 It [sc. a pond] was emptied by the sub-cellarer of the monastery, the fish taken, and five hundred eels found. 1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark 35 The reeve from the Abbey's lands at Kidlington was engaged with the sub-cellarer on an intricate computation of the number of beeves to be fattened for the Abingdon market. 1990 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Apr. Sister Simeon is a sub-cellarer, which means she's in charge of the menu and telephones out every day for the food. 2002 T. N. Kinder Cistercian Europe ii. 76/2 He [sc. the cellarer] had numerous assistants—sub-cellarer, guest master, accountants, lay servants, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1500 |
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