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(usually capitalized) One elected to preside over the Christmas revelry in noble households and elsewhere in England during the 15th and 16th century; Lord of Misrule.
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A high magistrate's title under the doge of independent Genoa.
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(historical, Ancient Rome) An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water.
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Resembling or characteristic of an alderman.
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(obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
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(historical) The former chief magistrates of the city of Toulouse, France.
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(Ancient Rome, historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.
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A high officer of state, as currently with the papal camerlengo, but normally now a mainly honorary title.
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(Christianity) A senior record keeper of a cathedral; a senior legal officer for a bishop or diocese in charge of hearing cases involving ecclesiastical law.
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Alternative form of chapeler [A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.]
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The role or position of a chaplain.
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Obsolete spelling of chaplain [A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.]
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The possession or revenue of a chapel.
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Obsolete form of chaplain. [A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.]
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(Britain) A lay officer of the Church of England who handles the secular affairs of the parish.
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The role or office of a churchwarden.
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A joint or coadjutant bishop.
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A chapter of a secret order, especially the Knights Templar (order affiliated with Freemasonry).
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Alternative letter-case form of Consistorialrath [(historical, ecclesiastical) councillor of the consistory]
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(historical) Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
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(Roman Catholicism) 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.
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(Freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
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(historical) A member of local government in ancient Rome.
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(archaic) An official in Cochin China, whose role is now uncertain.
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The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
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Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.
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The rank or office of an ephor.
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The office of an ephor; ephors collectively
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(historical) The lead official of the Inquisition.
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The chief of a group of priors, at a large religious house with more than one; also specifically, the commander of a priory of the Knights of St John.
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(historical, Ancient Rome) An interregnum after the death of an emperor.
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(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A churchwarden
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A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.
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A building where a Quaker congregation assembles for worship.
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The status or rank of a nuncio.
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Alternative form of prefect (Ancient Roman official) [(historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.]
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(historical, translating Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.
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Alternative form of pretorium [(historical) The general's tent in an Ancient Roman camp.]
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Alternative spelling of praetor [(originally) A consul in command of the army.]
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Alternative spelling of Praetorian [(historical, Ancient Rome) A member of a special bodyguard force used by Roman emperors. The symbol of the Praetorian Guard was the scorpion.]
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(historical) The official residence of the Ancient Roman praetor, proconsul, or governor in a province.
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A magistrate of ancient Rome who governed a province after serving as a praetor in Rome.
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(religion) The head of various other ecclesiastical bodies, even (rare, obsolete) muezzins.
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Archaic spelling of president. [The head of state of a republic.]
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Alternative form of praetexta [(historical, Roman antiquity) A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.]
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Alternative spelling of praetor [(originally) A consul in command of the army.]
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(historical) The Quaestor sacri palatii of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium; first generally a legislator, then judicial official, and eventually an honorary title by the 14th century.
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Obsolete form of rector. [In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.]
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A proctor for a monastery.
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Abbreviation of Reverend. [A title indicating respect, prefixed to the names of Christian clergy.]
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A title indicating respect, prefixed to the names of Christian clergy.
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The Right Reverend (an ecclesiastical title)
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Right Reverend (an ecclesiastical title)
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Right Reverend (as an ecclesiastical title).
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The office or position of a sachem.
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A sacristan or church treasurer.
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(obsolete) An important church official.
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A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
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(historical) Alternative form of strategus [The leader or commander of an army; a general.]
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Alternative spelling of subdeacon [(Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic clerical rank in the major orders below that of a deacon.]
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an abbot with another abbot as their superior
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Any method of naming kings, pharaohs and similar monarchs
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(Britain) An attendant upon a dignitary, such as a bishop or dean, a justice, etc.
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(UK, historical) An assistant to a canon or prebendary of a collegiate church having special responsibility for the choir as opposed to the altar.
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A person who readily turns their coat to suit the times.
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(Christianity) An official performing the work of an archdeacon under the bishop.
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(Christianity) In Roman Catholicism, the cardinal whose duty it is to draft and dispatch papal bulls and briefs.
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(historical) A kind of police commandant in Ancient Rome, responsible for a vicus.
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