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custodes rotulorum

custodes rotulorum is the plural of custos rotulorum.

Meaning of custos rotulorum

Noun

custos rotulorum (plural custodes rotulorum)

  1. (historical) The main justice of the peace in a given county of England, Wales or Ireland.
    • Mr Casaubon made a dignified though somewhat sad audience; […] mindful that this desultoriness was associated with the institutions of the country, and that the man who took him on this severe mental scamper was not only an amiable host, but a landholder and custos rotulorum.1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, pages 35–36
  2. The chief magistrate and representative of the Governor-General in a Jamaican parish.

Questions about custodes rotulorum

What is custodes rotulorum the plural of?
Custodes rotulorum is the plural of custos rotulorum.

Words near custodes rotulorum in the dictionary

  1. custode
  2. custodee
  3. custodees
  4. custodes
  5. custodes regni
  6. custodes rotulorum
  7. custodia
  8. custodial
  9. custodialism
  10. custodialisms
  11. custodially

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