† theˈsaurary, -ie Chiefly Sc. Obs.
[ad. med.L. thēsaurāria ‘thesaurarii dignitas’ (Du Cange), fem. of thēsaurāri-us adj., f. thēsaur-us treasure: see -ary1; cf. Pr. thezauraria, Sp. and It. tesoreˈria, mod.F. trésorerie treasury.]
1. The office of treasurer; treasurership. Sc.
| 1473–4 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 1 Compt of a reuerennd fader in God..of the office of Thesaurary. a 1557 Diurn. Occur. (1833) 11 Archibald was depryvit of the thesaurarie. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. (S.T.S.) 291 The Cardinal..put him fra the office of the Thesaurarie. |
2. transf. A treasury; also = thesaurus 2.
| 1592 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 558/1 The ordinar fies..sall nawayis be gevin out of his Maiesties thesaurarie. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. C iij b/2 The end of the thesaurarye or storehouse of the Instrumentes of Chyrurgerie. |
3. attrib. thesaurary house, treasury.
| 1495 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 268 To turs it to the Thesaurary hous in the Castell. |