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Definition of Almoners
1. almoner [n] - See also: almoner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Almoners
Literary usage of Almoners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"... it is evident that the happy individual Paterfamilias enjoying his Christmas
pie, actually makes his tradesmen his almoners to his well-paid household. ..."
2. The Court of Napoleon: Or, Society Under the First Empire; with Portraits of by Frank Boott Goodrich (1858)
"The Members of Napoleon's Imperial Household—The almoners; Chamberlains; Marshals;
Masters of the Horse and Hounds ; Intendants ; Physicians ; Surgeons—The ..."
3. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical by Alexander Chalmers (1812)
"almoners, first almoners, confessors, &c.- He was licentiate iu theology of the
faculty of Paris. ..."
4. Memoranda, References, and Documents Relating to the Royal Hospitals of the by Court of Common Council (1836)
"Among the forty-eight almoners, is there any one who has never attended to take
his charge ? 26. Do the committee report to the court all leases, contracts, ..."
5. The Kentucky Law Reporter by Kentucky Court of Appeals (1904)
"from those upon whose property they have trespassed, mill which enables juries
to constituí« themselves vicarious almoners for the distribution of charity ..."
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