maunciple

Middle English

Alternative forms

• manciple, mawnciple, mawncyple

Etymology

From Old French manciple.

Noun

maunciple (needs inflection)

1. manciple (person in charge of storing food)
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologe of the Maunciples Tale”, in Tales of Caunterbury, lines 56–59:

     And to the maunciple thanne spak our host, / 'By-cause drink hath dominacioun / Upon this man, by my savacioun / I trowe he lewedly wolde telle his tale.

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Descendants

• English: manciple

References

• “maunciple, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Further reading

• the Manciple's Tale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia