Custos

//ˈkʌ.stɒs// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A warden. obsolete

    "[…] they were commytted to prison & put out of theyr offyces & the Constable of the Towre made custos of the citye."

  2. 2
    A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a custody of the order.
  3. 3
    In older forms of musical notation, an indication, at the end of a line of music, of the first note of the next line. historical

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"[…] they were commytted to prison & put out of theyr offyces & the Constable of the Towre made custos of the citye."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin custōs.

Related phrases

custos regnicustos rotulorum

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