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What is an infirmarian?

What is an infirmarian? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who works in a nunnery or monastery, caring for the nuns who became ill, as well as caring for other old and sick people living in the nunnery.
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The infirmarian must be thoroughly reliable, known for his piety and diligence and solicitude for his charge.
She discharged the offices of portress and infirmarian with great generosity and fidelity.
Whenever there were sick under his charge the infirmarian was to be excused, as far as was necessary, from regular duties.
I now ask the infirmarian why he had not made me aware of the fact, and called me sooner.
To quiet him, the infirmarian was obliged to ask Sister if the patient might have it.
Two, Fr John Pinkman, the seminary's junior housemaster, and Fr Domenico Valmaggia, its infirmarian, are now dead.

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