Someone who administers the goods of another. An officer who lays out money for a household.
"When by Pope Innocent's command, the dispensators collected ransom-money from the aged, the poor, and the sick, this same usurer feigned poverty and gave one of the dispensators about the sum of five marks, thus deceiving the priest. His neighbours afterwards testified that he might have given forty marks without thereby disinheriting his children, as he pretended. But God, who could not be deceived, presently put a terrible end to his trickery."
Caesarius of Heisterbach (13th century)
[Joseph Strange's edition (1851).]
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