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单词 pittancer
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pittancern.

Brit. /ˈpɪt(ə)nsə/, U.S. /ˈpɪtnsər/
Forms: late Middle English petauncere, late Middle English petaunseer, late Middle English pitaunceere, late Middle English pytauncere, 1500s pitancer, 1500s pytauncer, 1700s– pittancer, 1800s pietancer, 1800s pitanciar, 1800s pitancier.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: pittance n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < pittance n. + -er suffix1, after Middle French pitancier (1287 in Old French; French †pitancier). Compare post-classical Latin pitantiarius (frequently from 13th cent. in British and continental sources; also as pietantiarius), Old Occitan pitancier (14th–15th cent.), Spanish pitancero (1310 or earlier as †pitanzero), Portuguese pitanceiro (1268 as †pitançeiro).Apparently attested earlier as a surname (Rob. le Pitanciar (1282), Thomas le Pytauncer (1297)), although it is possible that these may reflect an otherwise unrecorded Anglo-Norman parallel. In form pitancier after French †pitancier.
Now historical.
An officer in a religious house having the duty of distributing and accounting for pittances.
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dispensator1600
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c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 196 The ladi..is pitaunceere of heer inne..She yiveth mete to the soule and feedeth it that it hungre nouht.
c1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Tiber.) 22238 I am Sowcelerere Off this place, and Pytauncere.
1506 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 108 Dame John Barkyng, pytauncer of the monastery in Bury.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. i. sig. N iiiiv Our storer and pitancer .i. our bestower or layer vp of al prouisions, that be brought to hous, and the distributer or deliuerer forth of the same.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Pietantiarius The Pittancer or Officer in Collegiate Churches, who was to give out the several Pittances, according to the Appointment of the Founders or Donours.
1786 R. Beatniffe Norfolk Tour (ed. 4) 53 The other five arches..were built by Bishop Salmon and his friends; and by the profits arising from the office of pittancer, which the convent expended on this work.
1881 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 4 20/1 The abbot, the pittancer, the chamberlain, the sacristan, and the cook all had separate estates assigned to them for their maintenance.
1953 Speculum 28 585 She has gone through a vast mass of documents in the Archives Nationales—cartularies and rent-rolls of the abbey, accounts of the pittancer, [etc.].
1993 B. Harvey Living & Dying in Eng. ii. 36 The pittancer, who provided many of the extras consumed on feast days.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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