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 theinfirmary in areligious house.
Etymologies
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Old French enfermerier, from enfermerie infirmary. See infirmary.
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