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Synonyms for manciple
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : man-suh-puh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæn sə pəl |
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Définition of manciple
Origin :- "officer or servant who purchases provisions for a college, monastery, etc.," early 13c., from Old French mancipe "servant, official, manciple," from Latin mancipium "servant, slave, slave obtained by legal transfer; the legal purchase of a thing," literally "a taking in hand," from manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)) + root of capere "to take" (see capable).
- As in steward : noun custodian
- The Manciple is chaffing the ‘coke’ for having had too much to drink.
- Extract from : « Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England » by Richard Valpy French
- Manciple, you are responsible for the preservation of that Star-fish.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 » by Various
- Manciple, man′si-pl, n. a steward: a purveyor, particularly of a college or an inn of court.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
- He did as soon as Alice said that about whining and grizzling being below the dignity of a Manciple.
- Extract from : « The Wouldbegoods » by E. Nesbit
- Extra food obtained from the manciple to be eaten in private was called Battels.
- Extract from : « Oxford and its Story » by Cecil Headlam
- One of Chaucer's pilgrims is a manciple of the Temple, of whom he gives a good character for his skill in purveying.
- Extract from : « Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present » by John Timbs
- I may add that pulled, in the sense of 'plucked off the feathers,' occurs in the Manciple's Tale; H. 304.
- Extract from : « Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales » by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chaucer repeats the example yet a third time, in the Manciple's Tale, H. 163.
- Extract from : « Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales » by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canon's Yeoman's tale is the first told on the third day, and the Manciple's is only the second.
- Extract from : « Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales » by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The satire was too much for the Cook, who became excited, and fell from his horse in his attempts to oppose the Manciple.
- Extract from : « Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales » by Geoffrey Chaucer
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