Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A court official corresponding to the steward of an ordinary household. Sometimes called discthegn.
Wiktionary
- n. the servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
- n. the official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.
- n. the most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.
Etymologies
- From Late Latin dapifer, from Latin daps ("feast") + ferō ("bear"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“St. Mary's Abbey at York and was founded by Wyman, steward or dapifer to the Earl of Richmond, about the year 1100, whereas the Franciscans in the town owed their establishment to Radulph Fitz-Ranulph, a lord of”
“Hall, after the Lord of Bedale of that name, who was a sewer or dapifer to the first Earl Alan of Richmond.”
“There is much doubt as to whether this Stephen was Stephen de Garland, dapifer, or another Stephen, who was royal chancellor under Louis the”
“Stephen dapifer as Stephen de Garland, seneschal of France, is trustworthy.”
“But in a medieval vocabulary we find "setter of mes, dapifer," which would make it the same as Sewer (Chapter XV).”
“Siward by his wife Cecilia had a large family: Hugh de Rotley [379] (dapifer or sewer to his kinsman William de Newburgh), Henry de Arden,”
“Sicily a king, to Russia the magnus dapifer of the empire, to”
“For though my ratification hath not yet been ac - cepted at Munfter, becaufe the title of Archi - dapifer is ftill in it, yet they are willing to give me a recepiffe that I have offered them, and that there was no other fault in the form of them: neither is it reafonable that I fhould omit it before all be performed which • is promifed on their fide.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dapifer’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dysteleology, dyslogistic, dystectic, dysphoria, dysphonia, dystopia, dysphemism, dystocia, dyslogia, dysaesthesia, dyschromatopic, dysbulia and 624 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Maids
Maids of all stripes.
twait-shad, chambermaid, demoiselle, fille de chambre, housemaid, amah, lady's maid, femme-de-chambre, tire-woman, soubrette, comb-brush, abigail and 80 more...
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Defunct professions
Economists like to cite "buggy whip maker" as an example of a profession whose career prospects were dimmed, and ultimately quenched, by the inexorable march of technological progress. This is a li...
buggy whip maker, guillemot egg col..., bog iron hunter, nettle string maker, fuller, purple maker, tanner, gut girl, reddleman, wont catcher, navvy, ratcatcher and 239 more...
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Carry Me Home
Another kind of bear list: words bearing the -fer suffix ("that which carries"), the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
Also see (if you like) Carry Me Home Again.aquifer, conifer, umbellifer, transfer, thurifer, defer, telfer, suffer, rotifer, refer, foraminifer, poriferous and 157 more...
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At Your Service
Servants who are traditionally male. Inspired by hernesheir's maids list (as well as Downton Abbey)
footman, chasseur, hurkaru, chobdar, lackey, jeames, manservant, pantryman, groom, palefrenier, coistrel, ostler and 106 more...
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October List
sposh, jowlop, slampamp, spot rump, finikin, livedo, nidget, mulmul, mugient, olm, pawl, dapifer and 76 more...
Tweets
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reesetee One who brings meat to the table; hence (in some countries) the official title of the grand master or steward of a noble's household. Nov 5, 2007