Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete The officer in charge of the infirmary in a religious house.

Etymologies

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Old French enfermerier, from enfermerie infirmary. See infirmary.

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