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Webster 1913 Edition
Provisor
1.
One who provides; a purveyor.
[Obs.]
“The chief provisor of our horse.” Ford.
2.
(R. C. Ch.)
(a)
The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.
Cowell.
(b)
One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See
Provision
, 5. P. Plowman.
Webster 1828 Edition
Provisor
PROVI'SOR
,Noun.
More sharp and penal laws were devised against provisors; it being enacted that whoever disturbs any patron in the presentation to a living by virtue of any papal provision, such provisor shall pay fine and ransom to the king at his will, and be imprisoned till he renounces such provision.
1.
The purveyor, steward or treasurer of a religious house.Definition 2024
provisor
provisor
English
Alternative forms
- provisour (obsolete)
Noun
provisor (plural provisors)
- A deputy of a Roman Catholic bishop.
- The holder of a papal provision.
Latin
Noun
prōvīsor m (genitive prōvīsōris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | prōvīsor | prōvīsōrēs |
genitive | prōvīsōris | prōvīsōrum |
dative | prōvīsōrī | prōvīsōribus |
accusative | prōvīsōrem | prōvīsōrēs |
ablative | prōvīsōre | prōvīsōribus |
vocative | prōvīsor | prōvīsōrēs |
References
- provisor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- provisor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- PROVISOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “provisor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.