cimeliarchs
cimeliarchs is the plural of cimeliarch.
Meaning of cimeliarch
Noun
cimeliarch (plural cimeliarchs)
- A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
- Thirty-one canons, including archpriest, archdeacon, primicier, provost, and dean; and twenty-six cardinals, twelve being priests and nine deacons, and fire suhdeacons, one cimeliarch, or sacrist; beneficiati, including master of the ceremonies, four notaries, primicierius lectorum; five lectores...1865, Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott, Cathedralia: a constitutional history of Cathedrals of the Western Church
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- What is cimeliarchs the plural of?
- Cimeliarchs is the plural of cimeliarch.
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