English Explanatory Dictionary

filacer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process

Word forms

filacer filacers

Etymology

From Old English filace (“a file or thread on which the records of the courts of justice were strung”), from French filasse (“tow of flax or hemp”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

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