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Definition of Custos
1. n. A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.
Definition of Custos
1. a guardian or keeper [n -TODES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Custos
Literary usage of Custos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A survey of London: Written in the Year 1598 by John Stow, William John Thoms (1876)
"The 19th, Thomas Romain, William de Lier ; custos, Sir John Briton, knight, ...
The 25th, Thomas of Suffolke, Adam of Fulham ; custos, Sir John Briton. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"He was custos of the castle and honour of Devizes in 1228 (io. ... He was also
appointed custos of Dover Castle and warden of the Cinque ports (io. i. ..."
3. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis (1889)
"When they are completed, then he must deliver them to the custos ; but as long
as they are in process they are to be with the Clerk of the Peace ..."
4. Annals of the Coinage of Britain and Its Dependencies: From the Earliest by Rogers Ruding (1819)
"William, the King's Taylor, custos Cunei, Canterbury i. 21. Adam Mercer, the samer.
22. ... John Hardell, custos Cunei *. 3*2. Walter de Mora, custos ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"It is not material to consider in what relation he stood to the custos, whether
he is his deputy or his clerk, or the clerk to the body of justices for whom ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and by Peregrine Bingham, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1830)
"It is not material to consider in what relation he stood to the custos, whether
he is his deputy or his clerk, or the clerk to the body of justices for whom ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and by Peregrine Bingham, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1830)
"He cannot be considered as the deputy of the custos in the legal sense of the
word, because a deputy may perform all the duties of the principal, ..."
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