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▪ I. convictor1|kənˈvɪktə(r), -ɔː(r)| [a. L. convictor, -ōrem, one who lives with another, table companion, f. convīvĕre to live or dine together.] A table companion; a boarder, commoner. In Academical Latin, e.g. in the Laudian Statutes of the Univ. of Oxford, 1636, one of the equivalents of commensalis commoner: e.g. p. 265 ‘Nullus convictor sive commensalis’. In Eng. use, in Roman Catholic seminaries and colleges.
1647Crashaw Poems 195 Lift our lean souls, and set us up Convictors of Thine own full cup. 1674Blount Glossogr., Convictor, a daily companion at a Table, a Sojourner. One that lives and diets in a Religious House, but is not tied to the Rules of it. 1708Coles, Convictor, a boarder. 1845G. Oliver Collect. Biog. Soc. Jesus 84 The second..became convictor of the English College at Rome in 1667. 1889Hadfield Hist. St. Marie's Mission Ch., Sheffield, He took up his residence at Ushaw College as a convictor. ▪ II. † conˈvictor2 Obs. rare. [Agent-n. in L. form from convincĕre to convince: cf. L. victor from vincĕre.] One who convicts.
1650T. Bayly Herba Parietis To Rdr. 4. 1655–60 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 23/2 If any Man shall be convict privately of theft..it shall be..at the pleasure of the Convictor..to put him in chains five days. |