usserie2 (1267)
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usserie2 (1267)

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[gdw]

  FEW:  ostium 7,438b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  uis (*)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  ostiaria 1 2066a
husserie,  hussherie,  hussherye;  userie,  ussherie  

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1 occupation office, duty of porter, doorkeeper: 
( c.1270; MS: c.1270-75 ) Temprance e sa chevalerie Denz mun quer ayent l’usserie Pur tut engeter vilaynie!  11025
♦occupationlawoffice, duty of usher, porter (in public office): 
( 1305 )  por avoir sa serjauntie de l'hussherie del escheker  i 474.86
( 1313 )  la baillie de la userie (var. ussherie) dil escheker  Ed II xiv.ii 118
( 1324-25 )  A nostre seigneur le Roi et a soun counsaile moustre Johan de Daggeworth, qe come ses auncestres furent feffez en fee des progenitours nostre seigneure le Roi qe ore est entierent [sic] de l'hussherye de l'eschekere [...]  i 427
♦eccl.occupationoffice, duty of ostiary, doorkeeper (lowest of the four minor orders in the Church): 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Mes des autre ordres ore dites avant, Kar l'usserie e les clefs avez De seint eglise  11069
hostiarie  us#2  ussel  usserie#1  ussier  ussiere 
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