| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.[Websters]
2. The office or employment of a datary.[Websters]. | |
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Date "DATARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1535. (references) |
| Etymology:Datary \Da"ta*ry\, noun. [from Late Latin expression datarius. See Dataria.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DATARY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Satire | DATARY, n. A high ecclesiastic official of the Roman Catholic Church, whose important function is to brand the Pope's bulls with the words Datum Romae. He enjoys a princely revenue and the friendship of God. Source: Devil's Dictionary | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] An officer of the chancery of Rome, who affixes the datum Roma to the pope's bulls.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (Can we verify(+) this sense?) a place where dates are stored and processed. (references) | 2: [Noun] an officer in the Roman Catholic Church who dispensed benefices. (references) | |
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