单词 | manciple |
释义 | manciplen. 1. An officer or servant who purchases provisions for a college, Inn of Court, monastery, etc.; (more generally) a person responsible for the supply of provisions, etc., for a group of people. Also in extended use.In quot. ?c1225 probably a misunderstanding of a Latin original which had mancipium in the sense of bondservant, slave. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 159 Þe ȝiuere glutun is þe deofles maunciple [c1230 Corpus manciple]. ach he stikeð eauer inceler oðer incuchene. his heorte is iþe disches. c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 567 A gentil maunciple was ther of a temple, Of which achatours myghte take exemple For to be wys in byynge of vitaille. 1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 98 Oones I was a manciple at Mertoun halle. 1458 in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) II. 344 (MED) Þe belryngere of þe Universyte, with al there howsholdes, al catowrs, manciplis, spencers. 1482 Monk of Evesham 49 And thoo thyngys that were necessarye to the ornamentys of alle the chyrche,..y wolde dylygently orden therfore, as y had be hys famylyar seruante and mawncypylle. 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 78 The..Proctors requyrd the..xxvs of the mansebyll. 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 89 Gunter beyng a mancyple to scolers. 1596 S. Ward Diary 22 July in Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 113 My anger with the Manciple for not taking in my sizing. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 84 Furnish't with no more experience then they learnt betweene the Cook, and the manciple. 1660 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 352 At Queen's Coll. Oxon is every year a bore's head provided by the manciple against Xtmasday. 1721–2 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 13 (1754) 63 Father William..made him manciple of his college, a sinecure worth twenty pounds a year. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 169 Finding that the Barrack I was to be in had four Beds, we..took it by turns to officiate as Manciple. 1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 204 I remember..the cook applying to him [sc. Jackson]..for instructions how to write down edge bone of beef... He decided the orthography..[and]..dismissed the manciple (for the time) learned and happy. 1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain (1853) 67 In came the manciple with the dinner paper, which Mr. Vincent had formally to run his eye over. 1897 D. Macleane Pembr. Coll. (O.H.S.) iii. 32 He [sc. the principal] did not cater for the aularians. This was done by an upper servant or manciple, ‘wise in buying of vitaille’, who was sometimes a scholar. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Nov. 1424/2 Bourbon [i.e. Réunion] resented playing manciple to the centre of government and pleasure. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 238/2 Having it would seem obtained a training as a land surveyor, he was manciple of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, by 1628. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave theowc893 thrallc950 young manOE slavec1290 boyc1300 servanta1325 bondc1330 bondmana1340 manciplea1387 man's-bond?a1400 thrillc1480 thrillmanc1480 serf1483 bondservant1535 bondslave1561 bondling1587 slave-boy1607 slave-labourer1607 chattel1649 bondsman1713 livestock1755 esne1819 thirl-man1871 task-labourer1897 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 377 Anon he was made þe enemyes his maunciple [v.r. mancypel; L. mancipium hostis], he gan to ligge and to fome. ?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) ii. vi. f. 67v (MED) Þe same falliþ in a iewe or in a sarecene þe whilk, are þei be cristned, ar nouȝt bot manciples of helle. 1537 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 89 Euery man well perceyuethe the difference betwyxt a franke, a holy, a godly, a generall cownsaill, and an assemblie of ambicious manciples, of men sworne to pope's lustes and gaynes. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 407/1 For is not ye kyng of England our [sc. the pope's] vassall? and to saie more, our manciple or page. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Mancipio A manciple, a bondman, a thrall, a vassall.] Derivatives ˈmancipleship n. the office of manciple. ΚΠ 1642 Bonds by Butler or Manciple (Brasenose Coll. Oxf. Archives) (Hurst Cal. of Munim. 34, Bond 3) To perform his mancipleship faithfully. 1774 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Nov. in Oxf. & Somerset Diary James Woodforde 1774–5 (1989) 89 Old Tho.s Dodd..shall have a Pension (to commence at Christmas the Time he relinquishes his Mancipleship) of 40. Pounds Per Annum for his Life. 1899 A. Clark in A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (new ed.) III. xxxiii. 29 (note) Richard Gunter had sued a servant of John Loudon, Warden of New College, in the mayor's court: he was..deprived of his mancipleship of Vine Hall. 1989 Queen's College Rec. Dec. 6 (heading) John Sewell's note on the College mancipleship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1225 |
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