Silentiary: Definition and part of speech

Silentiary

  1. n. One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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