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单词 cursitor
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cursitorn.

/ˈkəːsɪtə/
Forms: 1500s cursetor, coursetour, coursiter, 1500s–1600s coursitor, cursitour, 1600s cursiter, 1500s– cursitor.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman coursetour, < medieval Latin cursitor (Ordericus Vitalis) = cursor runner. (Apparently formed to have the same relation to cursor , that cursitāre has to cursāre .) But the exact derivation in sense 1 is obscure.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
1.
a. One of twenty-four officers or clerks of the Court of Chancery, whose office it was to make out all original writs de cursu, i.e. of common official course or routine, each for the particular shire or shires for which he was appointed.The office was abolished in 1835.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > registrar or clerk > clerk who filed writs or issued processes
filacer1447
cursitor1523
summon-master1618
Clerk of the Crown1681
1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 8 As well the coursetours and other clerkes, as the sixe clerkes of the said Chauncery.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 96 Cursiter is an officer or Clerke belonging to the Chancerie..They are called Clerkes of the Course in the oath of Clerkes of the Chancery.
a1656 G. Goodman Court King James I (1839) I. 280 I have heard that the cursitor's office of Yorkshire hath been sold for 1,300 l.
1703 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 308 Mr. Gillingham, cursitor of Monmouth and Hereford, is dead.
1767 Antiq. Durham Abbey, Descr. Bishoprick 133 Court of Chancery [Durham], Mr. Thomas Hugall, Cursitor and Examiner.
b. A secretary. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. I. 80 The..Lay Inspector..has one or two Secretaries or Cursitors under him.
2. A running messenger, courier; also figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > running or express messenger
couriera1382
scarceler14..
cursor1566
pattamar1598
cursitora1604
express1619
cossid1682
tappal-wallah1865
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 84 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) [He] sent Scoutes, and Cursitors, Messengers..over the whole land.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviii. iii. 337 Their office was this, by running..to be cursitours to and fro.
1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience iv. 25 The spirits, (those cursiters betwixt soule and body).
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Sussex 101 Dromedaries..are the Cursitors for travell for the Eastern Country.
3. One who wanders about the country; a vagabond, tramp. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1567 T. Harman (title) A caueat or warening, for commen cursetors vulgarely called vagabones.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 156 Common coursiters, which post about still to suruey all scholes, and neuer staie in one.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. §68. 167/2 Cursitors or Vagabonds.
1725 New Canting Dict. Cursitors, the Forty-second Order of Vagabonds.
4. cursitor baron n. the junior or puisne baron of the Exchequer, a subordinate member of the court who attended to matters ‘of course’ on the revenue side. The office was abolished in 1856.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > of court of exchequer
baron1377
cursitor baron1642
1642 C. Vernon Considerations Excheqver 33 The..Cursitor Baron being so called because he is chosen most usually out of some of the best experienced Clerkes of the two Remembrancers, or Clerke of the Pipes Office, and is to informe the Bench and the Kings learned Counsell..what the course of the Exchequer is for the preservation of the same.
1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 557 Mr. Bradbury, of the Middle Temple, was lately sworn cursitor baron of the exchequer.
1830 Price Law of Exchequer 77 The Cursitor Baron, or, as he is sometimes called, the Fifth or Puisne Baron of the Court of Exchequer..has no judicial authority in the Court of Exchequer as a Court of Law.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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