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Webster 1913 Edition


Cellarer

Cel′lar-er

,
Noun.
[LL.
cellararius
, equiv. to L.
cellarius
steward: cf. F.
cellérier
. See
Cellar
.]
(Eccl.)
A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cellarer

CELLARIST

, CELLARER,
Noun.
An officer in a monastery who has the care of the cellar, or the charge of procuring and keeping the provisions; also, an officer in chapters, who has the care of the temporals, and particularly of distributing bread, wine, and money to canons, an account of their attendance in the choir.