lymytour

lymytour (plural lymytours)

1. A limiter; that is, a friar with a license to beg within certain bounds
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Ther walketh now the lymytour hymself / In undermeles and in morwenynges, / And seyth his matyns and his hooly thynges

     There walketh now the limiter himself / In late mornings and [early] mornings, / And saith his matins [prayers] and [his] holy things