Also 5 costodyer, 9 custodiar. [f. L. custōdia custody + -ER.]
One who has the custody of anything; a custodian. Now esp. Scotch.
c. 1470. Harding, Chron., LXXVIII. i. My knightes … My landes helpe, custodye[r]s of my crowne.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), II. 628. Now euery costodyer kepe well hys wall.
1820. Scott, Abbot, xix. He had become … the custodier, as the Scottish phrase went, of some important state secret.
1839. Morn. Herald, in Spirit Metrop. Conserv. Press (1840), I. 151. Custodiar to the Bank of England’s treasure.
1892. Ld. Hannen, in Law Rep., App. Cases 165. The appellant … is bound … to live in the bank house as custodier of the whole premises.
