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ˈpurse-ˌbearer
1. The bearer or carrier of a purse; one who has charge of the money of another or of a company; a treasurer, bursar.
c1305Judas Iscariot 114 in E.E.P. (1862) 110 Siþþe oure louerd him makede apostle: to fondi his mod And siþþe pursberer of his pans: to spene al his god. c1475Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 804/39 Hic naucherus, a pursberer. 1598Ord. for Prayer in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 681 D. Bagshaw, the Pope's Judas or purse-bearer. 1630Wadsworth Pilgr. vi. 58 The money which wee deliuered vnto him being our purse-bearer. 1840Thackeray Pict. Rhapsody Wks. 1900 XIII. 320 There is Mr. James Fraser, our employer, master, publisher, purse-bearer, and friend.
2. spec. The official who carries the Great Seal in front of the Lord Chancellor in a receptacle called ‘purse’ or ‘burse’.
1688Luttrell Brief Rel. I. (1857) 429 The lord chancellor hath turn'd out Mr. Harris, his pursebearer. 1705Hearne Collect. 28 Oct. (O.H.S.) I. 60 Mr. Wullaston made Purse-Bearer to the..Ld. Keeper. 1901Empire Rev. I. 467 The Lord Chancellor..is preceded on his entry to the House by the Sergeant-at-Arms, bearing the Mace, the Purse-bearer carrying the Purse, which is supposed to contain the Great Seal, and his train is borne by a Trainbearer.
3. A pouched animal, a marsupial.
1851Broderip Note Bk. Naturalist (1852) 161 The marsupiates, or purse-bearers.
So ˈpurse-ˌbearing a., pouched, marsupiate. |