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manciple

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man·ci·ple  (mns-pl)
n.
A steward or purchaser of provisions, as for a monastery or college.
[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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heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy, and ejaculate,---``Nay, but fair sir, now I bethink me, my Malkin abideth not the spur---Better it were that you tarry for the mare of our manciple down at the Grange, which may be had in little more than an hour, and cannot but be tractable, in respect that she draweth much of our winter fire-wood, and eateth no corn.
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