manciple
Example Sentences
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I had, indeed, took the liberty of telling the manciple that you was not a gentleman to give more trouble than you could 'elp.
From The Ship of Stars by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A doctor of physic, a cook, a poor parson, a ploughman, a reeve, or estate agent, a manciple, and two disgraceful characters—a summoner and a pardoner—make up the total of the company.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper
Here are some of them: manual, manoeuver, mandate, manacle, manicure, manciple, emancipate, manage, manner, manipulate, manufacture, manumission, manuscript, amanuensis.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
In Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer, however, and in all other copies I have seen, the reading is "A gentil manciple was ther of a temple."
From Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 by Various
"And yet this manciple made them fools, I wot."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
