[L. genitive pl. of famulus a servant.] The name given to a prayer in the Mass for the Commemoration of the living, beginning ‘Memento, Domine, famulorum famularumque tuarum.’

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c. 1380[?].  Wyclif, Eng. Wks. (1880), 134. Here special preiere, as famulorum & benefactorum. Ibid., Sel. Wks., III. 441. Þai say furst … one Famulorum saide of a frere is better þen a Pater noster.

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1401.  Political Poems (Rolls), II. 103.

        But wel I wote that alle ȝe
gate never a peny,
with the pater-noster,
but with ȝoure famulorum,
that ȝe sey is beter,
ȝe gete many poundes.

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