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noun

Provisor n.

One who provides; a purveyor. (Obs.) "The chief provisor of our horse."

(R. C. Ch.)

(a)

The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.

(b)

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

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

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Etymology of 'Provisor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Chicheley under licence in mortmain in 1437 for Cistercian monks, on the model of Gloucester Hall and Durham College for the southern and northern Benedictines. Nothing more than a site and building was required by way of endowment, as the young monks, who were sent there to study under a provisor, were supported by the houses of the order to which they belonged. The site was five acres, and the building is described in the letters patent "as a fitting and noble college mansion in honour of the most glorious Virgin Mary and St Bernard ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various