An archaic or rare term for a court official, scribe, or keeper of records who used canceling marks or seals.
From cancel plus -eer suffix (a person who does something), influenced by French words like chancel-ier. An obsolete occupational term from medieval times.
Medieval officials who marked documents with cancels (lattice-like marks) got this fancy job title—it's a ghost word that almost nobody uses today but shows how job titles evolved!
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