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. tesoreria, mod.F. trésorerie treasury.]

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  1.  The office of treasurer; treasurership. Sc.

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1473–4.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 1. Compt of a reuerennd fader in God … of the office of Thesaurary.

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a. 1557.  Diurn. Occur. (1833), 11. Archibald was depryvit of the thesaurarie.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., X. (S.T.S.), 291. The Cardinal … put him fra the office of the Thesaurarie.

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  2.  transf. A treasury; also = THESAURUS 2.

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1592.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), III. 558/1. The ordinar fies … sall nawayis be gevin out of his Maiesties thesaurarie.

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1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., C iij b/2. The end of the thesaurarye or storehouse of the Instrumentes of Chyrurgerie.

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  3.  attrib. Thesaurary house, treasury.

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1495.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 268. To turs it to the Thesaurary hous in the Castell.

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