fermerere
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French enfermerier, from enfermerie (“infirmary”). See infirmary.
Noun
fermerere (plural fermereres)
- The officer in charge of the infirmary in a religious house.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fermerere in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)