Greffier

//ˈɡɹɛfiə(ɹ)// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A registrar or recorder; a notary. obsolete

    "c. 1610, Joseph Hall, epistle to Sir Thomas Challoner One thing I may not omit, without sinful oversight; a short, but memorable story, which the Greffier of that town, though of different religion, reported to more ears than ours."

Example

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"c. 1610, Joseph Hall, epistle to Sir Thomas Challoner One thing I may not omit, without sinful oversight; a short, but memorable story, which the Greffier of that town, though of different religion, reported to more ears than ours."

Etymology

From French greffier, from Late Latin grafārius, graphiārius.

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