custos

Definitions

1. A warden.
   obsolete
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. 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

Equivalents

Examples

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

“Mr. Tharp, the Custos of the parish, and several other gentlement, accompanied the corps.”

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