Provisor

[prә'vaizә]

Definition

(n.) One who provides; a purveyor.

(n.) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.

(n.) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5.

(n.) One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6.

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Definition

n. one who provides: a purveyor: a person to whom the pope has granted the right to the next vacancy in a benefice.—Statute of Provisors an act of the English parliament passed in 1351 to prevent the pope from exercising the power of creating provisors.

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