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Definition of macer : A mace bearer; an officer of a court.

Synonyms:

mace, macebearer

Usage examples:

• Many now began to revolt from Nero, and pretty nearly all adhered to Galba; only Clodius Macer in Africa, and Virginius Rufus, commander of the German forces in Gaul, followed counsel of their own; yet these two were not of one and the same advice, for Clodius, being sensible of the rapines and murders to which he had been led by cruelty and covetousness, was in perplexity, and felt it was not safe for him either to retain or quit his command. - "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.
• 122 Macer, G. Licinius ... - "Latin Literature", J. W. Mackail.
• Ends, Here endeth the third part of Macer. - "The Old English Herbals", Eleanour Sinclair Rohde.