cimeliarch

English

Alternative forms

• Cimeliarch

Etymology

Latin cimeliarcha, from Ancient Greek treasurer.

Noun

cimeliarch (plural cimeliarchs)

1. (obsolete) A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
   • 1865, Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott, Cathedralia: a constitutional history of Cathedrals of the Western Church:

     Thirty-one canons, including archpriest, archdeacon, primicier, provost, and dean; and twenty-six cardinals, twelve being priests and nine deacons, and fire suhdeacons, one cimeliarch, or sacrist; beneficiati, including master of the ceremonies, four notaries, primicierius lectorum; five lectores in feudo, ten minor lectores in feudo, six mazo-canonici, two choral chaplains, four ducales, two perpetual vicars, parish priest of S. Michael's, two chaplains of S. Agnes, two sacrists, sixteen porters, thirty-two atipendiary chaplains, thirty-two praefects of fabric, eight clerks, their servants; twenty-five musicians, one hundred and forty clerks of the seminary.

Anagrams

• chimerical