Word Meanings - CELLARER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

Related words: (words related to CELLARER)

• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• PROCURATORSHIP
  The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.
• PROCURATORY
  Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• BUTLERSHIP
  The office of a butler.
• BUTLER
  An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. The butler and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• STEWARDSHIP
  The office of a steward. Shak.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• PROCURACY
  1. The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another. 2. Authority to act for another; a proxy.
• KEEP
  k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
• CHAPTER
  of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a 1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters. An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual,
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• PROCURATOR
  One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak.
• MONASTERY
  A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females. Syn. -- Convent; abbey; priory. See Cloister.
• STEWARDESS
  A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• PROCURE
  for + curare to take care, fr. cura care. See Cure, and cf. Proctor, 1. To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means,
• PROCUREMENT
  1. The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment. 2. Efficient contrivance; management; agency. They think it done By her procurement. Dryden.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;