Hypertext Webster Gateway: "custos"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Custos \Cus"tos\ (k[u^]s"t[o^]s), n.; pl. {Custodes}
(k[u^]s*t[=o]"d[=e]z). [L.]
A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent. [Obs.]
{Custos rotulorum} (r[o^]t`[-u]*l[=o]"r[u^]m) [LL., keeper of
the rolls] (Eng. Law), the principal justice of the peace
in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records
of the sessions of the peace.
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