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Definition of manciple in English: manciplenoun ˈmansɪp(ə)lˈmænsəpəl archaic A person in charge of buying provisions for a college, an Inn of Court, or a monastery. Example sentencesExamples - A manciple was in charge of getting provisions for a college or court.
- The manciple accuses the cook of being drunk, and the cook falls off his horse after giving the Manciple a dirty look.
- Actually, university employees, such as manciples, were a more likely source of disorder.
- The miller's pseudo-aristocratic pride, founded on the worship of the notion of his wife's high status due to her descent from a parish priest, also offends the church, as well as clerks, wives and women in general, and perhaps even manciples.
- Despite his lack of education, this Manciple is smarter than the thirty lawyers he feeds.
Origin Middle English: via Anglo-Norman French and Old French from Latin mancipium 'purchase', from manceps 'buyer', from manus 'hand' + capere 'take'. Definition of manciple in US English: manciplenounˈmansəpəlˈmænsəpəl archaic An officer who buys provisions for a college, monastery, or other institution. Example sentencesExamples - Despite his lack of education, this Manciple is smarter than the thirty lawyers he feeds.
- The miller's pseudo-aristocratic pride, founded on the worship of the notion of his wife's high status due to her descent from a parish priest, also offends the church, as well as clerks, wives and women in general, and perhaps even manciples.
- Actually, university employees, such as manciples, were a more likely source of disorder.
- The manciple accuses the cook of being drunk, and the cook falls off his horse after giving the Manciple a dirty look.
- A manciple was in charge of getting provisions for a college or court.
Origin Middle English: via Anglo-Norman French and Old French from Latin mancipium ‘purchase’, from manceps ‘buyer’, from manus ‘hand’ + capere ‘take’. |