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▪ I. datary1|ˈdeɪtərɪ|
[ad. mod.L. datārius, It. datario, f. L. dat-um, It. dato, date: ancient L. had datārius adj. in sense ‘to be given away’.]
1. An officer of the Papal Court at Rome, charged with the duty of registering and dating all bulls and other documents issued by the Pope, and representing the Pope in matters relating to grants, dispensations, etc.
1527Knight in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. xxviii. 58 The datary hath clean forsaken the court. 1533Bonner Let. to Hen. VIII in Froude Hist. II. 145, I desired the datary to advertise his Holiness that I would speak with him. 1691W. B. Hist. Roman Conclave i. 2 The Datary, the Secretaries, and all such as have in their keeping the Seals of the deceased Pope, are obliged to surrender them. 1825C. Butler Bk. R.C. Church 112 The lips of a Roman datary would water at the sight of a bill of an English proctor.
†2. An expert in dates; a chronologer. Obs. rare.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. v. §7 Die quinto Elphegi. I am not Datary enough to understand this. a1661― Worthies i. (1662) 329 Let me onely be a Datary, to tell the Reader, that this Lord was created Earl of Portland, February 17 [1632].
▪ II. ˈdatary2
[ad. mod.L. datāria: see prec.]
The office or function of dating Papal bulls and other documents; a branch of the Apostolic Chancery at Rome separately organized in the 13th c. for this and other purposes: see prec.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 55 Besides the temporal dominions, he hath..the datary or dispatching of bulls. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 146/1 The next day..the Datary was kept open, and several businesses dispatcht. 1838J. R. Hope Scott Let. in Mem. (1884) I. ix. 168 It is supposed to be in the Datary.
b. attrib. or adj.
1688Burnet Lett. Pres. State of Italy 113 It may bring in more profit into the Datary Court. |