Obs. exc. Hist. [med.L.: f. brevis, breve, BRIEF + -ger -carrying.] One who carries briefs; a begging friar.
1859. York Fabric Rolls (Surtees), 167, note. Another letter of instructions for a breviger.
1859. Sat. Rev., VIII. 428/1. Chaucer must have had a Yorkshire breviger in his mind, when he described, in his Sompnoure’s Tale, the alms-gatherer in Holderness.
