单词 | cursitor |
释义 | cursitorn. 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. 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. 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. 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). < n.1523 |
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