almoners

Great Ormond Street is to lose all funding for social workers - once known as almoners - who help stricken families needing help with grant applications for caring for severely disabled children.

The Guardian World News Polly Toynbee 2010

The eligible couple who were destined under Mr. Bensington to be the first almoners on earth of the Food of the Gods, were not only very perceptibly aged, but also extremely dirty.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

There were also three deacons, or almoners, on whom was the care of the poor; and these were called Parnasin, or Pastors.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

When the college was finished, the founder and his wife resided in it and conformed in every respect to the regulations established for the government of his almoners.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

Even in Bonaparte's own guard, and among the officers of his household troops, several examples of rigour were necessary before they would go to any place of worship, or suffer in their corps any almoners; but now, after being drilled into a belief of Christianity, they march to the Mass as to a parade or to a review.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

England the same charity, or its equivalent, is dispensed, not by the sovereign in person, but by her chaplains and almoners, in the midst of beautiful formalities.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

On an earlier occasion witnessed by the writer a procession consisting of a detachment of the yeomen of the guard, under the command of a sergeant-major (one of the yeomen carrying the royal alms on a gold salver of the reign of William and Mary), several chaplains, almoners, secretaries and a few national schoolchildren (allowed to take part in the ceremony as a signal reward for good behavior), left the Royal

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

The bishop refused, and the emperor supped with one of the bishop's almoners, who was not admitted to his master's table.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831 Various

A chapel has lately been constructed near each barrack, and almoners are already appointed.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

Round him and their clerical chiefs, all the curates and grand vicars, almoners and chaplains of the Court, and the capitals of the Princess, Princesses, and grand officers of State, had formed a kind of cordon.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various