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   manciple

   /ˈmansɪpl/

   noun

   • 1. a person in charge of buying provisions for a college, an Inn of Court, or a monastery. archaic

   Word Origin Middle English: via Anglo-Norman French and Old French from Latin mancipium ‘purchase’, from manceps ‘buyer’, from manus ‘hand’ + capere ‘take’.

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • M

     3

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • C

     3

   • I

     1

   • P

     3

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

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