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† sompnour Obs.
Also 5–6 sompner(e.
[Variant of somnour somner: cf. prec.]
An official summoner.
α1377Langl. P. Pl. B. iii. 33 Sisoures and sompnoures, suche men hir preiseth. c1386Chaucer Prol. 543 Ther was..A sompnour and a pardoner also. c1400Plowman's Tale in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 313 They taken to ferme her sompnours. 1490–1Rec. St. Mary at Hill 164 Paide to William Iames, Sompnour, for sompnyng of iij tenauntes that owed monye to the chyrch, x d. 1555W. Watreman Fardle of Facions ii. xi. 256 Thei haue also certaine spie⁓faultes ordinarilye appoincted (muche like to our Sompnours).
β14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 573 Citator, a Sompnere. c1500God Speed the Plough (Skt.) 65 Than cometh the Sompner to haue som rente. a1535Frere & Boy 478 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 80 Thus they departed in that tyde, The offycyall and the sompnere. |