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custos |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Custos \Cus"tos\ (k[u^]s"t[o^]s), n.; pl {Custodes} (k[u^]s*t[=o]"d[=e]z). [L.] A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent. [Obs.] {Custos rotulorum} (r[o^]t`[-u]*l[=o]"r[u^]m) [LL., keeper of the rolls] (Eng. Law), the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.
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