almoner
.
Searchable Lemmata: aumosnere (AF), elemosinaria (L), aumener (ME), awmener (Scots), almoner (MdE).
Alternate Forms: aumosniere, aumenere, aumonere, asmonere, almonere, almoniere, amunere, aumere, alner, amenerium, elemosinariam, almererio, almonera, aumoneram, elemosinarium.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Accessory;
purse or small bag; in particular, an alms purse (from which the rich would give out alms to the poor).(ante 1175 - post 1460 ?)
1. robavit ab eo ... unam zonam et unum amenerium precii xij d. (cf. ib. r. 7: abstulerunt ab eo ... unam zonam argenteam cum uno aumenerio pleno speciebus)
Accounts.
[DMLBS JustIt (455 r. 3d.) 1247]
2. F. ové un compaynun ... troverent par la vaye Un’ burse pleyne de muneye ... . F. ... a sun compaygnun Dist ke levast le aumernere
Biblical/Hagiographic.
[AND S Fran ANTS (3079) circa 1275]
5. [219] ... nec prius se dignatur emunctorio tergere quam subjectum librum madefecerit turpi rore ... [220] ... quia non habet elemosinarium preparatum, in libris dimittit reliquias fragmentorum [fructus et casei]
Other.
[DMLBS R. BURY (Phil.17. 219-220) 1344]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.)
Accessory;
pouch.(1200 - 1300)
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, From Old French aumosnière, aumonière, from whence the Latin form elemosinaria, and cf. medieval Latin almonaria.
WF:
Etym Cog: aumosnière, aumonière, almonaria.
References:
