pollinctor

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

pollinctor (or pollictor), ōris, m. [pollingo],

one who washes corpses and prepares them for burning , an undertaker : pollinctores sunt, qui mortuos curant, Non. 157, 20; cf.: pollinctores dicti sunt, qui funera morientium accurant, Fulg. p. 559, 9; Plaut. Poen. prol. 63; id. As. 5, 2, 60; Varr. ap. Non. 157, 21 sq.; Mart. 10, 97, 3; Dig. 14, 3, 5; Sid. Ep. 3, 13; of buriers , Vulg. Ezech. 39, 15.

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