Obs. [f. FERMERY + -ER1.] The superintendent of a (monastic) infirmary. Cf. ENFERMERER.

1

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Sompn. T., 151.

        So did our sextein, and our fermerere,
That han ben trewe freres fifty yere.

2

1483.  Cath. Angl., 127/2. A Fermerer, infirmarius.

3