Thesaurus: seneschal

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1. n. An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.
2. n. the chief steward or butler of a great household
3. An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. Hallam.
4. An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in theMiddle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domesticceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing ofjustice, and was given high military commands.Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.Milton.Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first establishedroyal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, orseneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.Hallam.
5. n the chief steward or butler of a great household