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sempect Hist. rare—1.|ˈsɛmpɛkt|
[ad. med.L. sempēcta, senpecta, sympæcta, ad. Gr. συµπαίκτης playfellow.]
A term formerly used in the Benedictine Order, according to Pseudo-Ingulf applied to monks over fifty years old, who were allowed special privileges on account of age.
This seems to be a misapprehension. In the Benedictine Rule itself (cap. xxvii) senpectæ denotes the elder monks chosen by the abbot to visit (secretly) an excommunicated brother and to encourage him if likely to fall into despair.
1865Kingsley Herew. xx, Only the ancient sempects—some near upon a hundred and fifty years old—wandered where they would. |