manciple

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The manciple was to pro- vide all wine and mead, the keeping up the stock of earthenware cups, jugs, basins, and other vessels, together with the lamps and oil.

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  1. noun A steward or purchaser of provisions, as for a monastery or college.

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  1. Middle English maunciple, from Old French manciple, bondsman, variant of mancipe, from Latin mancipium, servant, ownership by acquisition, from manceps, mancip-, contractor, dealer : manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English manciple, maunciple, from Old French mancipe, a steward, purveyor, from Latin manceps (mancip-), a purchaser, renter, farmer, contractor, factor, etc.: see mancipate. The l is unorginal, as in principle, participle.
 

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/ˈmænsɪpl/
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