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possessionarius

possessionarius [ML < CL possessio+-arius] , (eccl. & mon.) who owns property, beneficed or belonging to to a propertied monastic order (also dist. from mendicus or sim.). s1380 etiam quelibet persona religiosa ~ia, dimidiam marcam solvet V. Ric. II 22; monachus ~ius respectu mendicorum et pauperum fratrum predicatorum est quasi dominus DCDurh. Reg. Parv. III f. 39; 1522 licebit aliis religiosis ~iis sedere post eos in eodem scanno Cant. Coll. Ox. III 145.

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