dispensarius

dispensarius 1 ‘dispenser’, store-keeper or steward (developing into surname). V. et. dispensator, expensarius. c1130 W. comes de Warenna Osmundo ~io (Breve Comitis) Eng. Feudalism 269 (cf. ib. 77); c1180 (v. dispendere 2b); 1219 hiis testibus: ‥ Constantino dapifero, Thebaldo ~io meo (Ch. Comitis) Inchaffray 34; 1227 testibus: ‥ Hugone Despenserio ‥ Cart. Osney IV 410; 1255 L. Bolman, ~ius dicti vicarii, dictas scapulas et colla [bestiarum] ad opus domini sui recepit SelPlForest 37; senescalli officium est ‥ de expensis hospicii cum emptore, marescallo, coco, ~io et officiariis computare Fleta 161; s1326 Londonienses ‥ dictos ~ios odio habentes Avesb. 77b (cf. ib.: dominus Hugo le Spenser junior et dominus Hugo le Spenser senior). 2 beneficiary of dispensation. dispensacio non est nisi licenciacio ad insistendum occupacioni vel operi meliori, qua licenciacione intercidente remaneret ~ius ad occupacionem graviorem vel opus abjeccius obligatus Wycl. Civ. Dom. III 333.