Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 5–6 thesaurair, -are, 5–7 -ar, 6 thesorar, -uerer, -awrar, 7 -orer. [ad. L. thēsaurārius treasurer, f. thēsaurus treasure: see -AR2, -ER2 2. Cf. Pr. thesaurier, Sp. tesorero, It. tesoriere; also TREASURER.] An officer in charge of treasure, or of a treasury; = TREASURER. Thesaurer deput, deputy treasurer: see quot. 1708.
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 209. Apon the sand ȝit I sawe, as thesaurer tane,… schir Gawane the Drak.
1473. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 32. Pait be the Thesaurair. Ibid. (1489), 125. Takyne be the Kyng … out of the Thesorarris purs.
1544. in Gross, Gild Merch., II. 75. The othir halfe to the thesuerer of the sayde sytty [Dublin].
1557–75. Diurn. Occur. (1833), 180. Iohne Cunnynghame … wes maid half thesaurer, with Mr. Robert Ritchartsone that wes thesaurer of befoir.
1685. Lond. Gaz., No. 2031/1. The Earl of Kintore Lord Thesaurer Deput.
1707. Narr. Jas. Nimmo (1889), 103. I was chosen Town Thesaurer.
1708. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., II. II. iv. (1737), 376. The Officers of State [of Scotland] before the late Union…. The Lord Thesaurer Depute, whose Commission ran in the same Terms with that given to the Thesaurer Principal, or the Commissioners of Thesaury.
1711. Country-Man’s Lett. to Curat, 21. The Lord Thesaurer Burleigh and Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary,… were professed Friends to the Non-conformists.
b. attrib. Thesaurer house, treasury.
1489. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 110. Item, the thrid da of May, takin be the King furth of the Thesaurare Houss himself, foure score of demyss, lvj li.
