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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 554 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MANCIPLE , the

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OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

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TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the caterer at a

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COLLEGE (Collegium)

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INN

inn of

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court, or other institution . Sometimes also the

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CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

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cook . The

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MEDIEVAL

medieval Latin manceps, formed from mancipium, acquisition by

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PURCHASE

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ROMAN

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LAW), meant a purchaser of stores, and mancipium became used of his

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OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office . It is from the latter word that the O . Fr. manciple is taken .

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