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CEIMELIOPHYLAX

Volume 5 · 42 words · 1815 Edition

(from κειμελίαν and φυλάσσω I keep), the keeper or curator of a collection of cemelia; sometimes also denominated cemeliarcha. The cemeliarcha, or ceimeliophylax, was an officer in the ancient churches or monasteries, answering to what was otherwise denominated chartophylax, and cyclus archivorum.