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Oeconomus, -os, -es, n. Also: oiconomus. [L. oeconomus housekeeper, steward, Gk. οἰκονόμος, e.m.E. oeconomus (1659). Cf. Econ-, Icon-, Yconomus.] The steward or manager of the property and finances of a religious house or a college. — 1561 Reg. Privy S. V. i. 210/1.
Togidder with the confirmatioun or constitutioun of oeconomos 1570 Bk. Univ. Kirk I. 179.
When any man profest in ane abbay shall be chosen ministrator or oeconomus be suffrages of these that have been profest in ane abbay c1575 Balfour Pract. 327.
Ane oeconomus and administrator of a benefice is not bund … to warrand ony tak … set be him as oeconomus 1608 Craven Argyll Diocese 60.
Without the house, my grieve and purveyor, within, my oeconomes and promptuar 1657–8 Fam. Rose 352.
For a quarter's buird to the oeconomus [of King's College] 1660 Glasg. Univ. Mun. I. 375.
Oiconomus 1677 Appendix History Church of Scotland (London, 1677) 34.
King James … 1577 did establish … in the colledge [Glasgow]: viz. a principal [etc.] … an oeconomus or provisor