Sĕn'es-chal, n.

(sĕn'e-shal; formerly sĕn'es-kal, 95), n. [Fr. sénéchal, O. Fr. seneschal, Pr. & Sp. senescal, It. siniscalco, sescalco, L. Lat. seniscalcus, siniscalcus, O. Ger. senescal, seneschalt, from the root sin, which signifies strength, force, duration, age (cf. Lat. senēre, to be old, senex, senis, old), and scale, scalk, a servant.] A steward; an officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, who has the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies. In some instances, the seneschal is an officer who has the dispensing of justice; as, the high seneschal of England.

Then marshaled feasts Served up in halls with sewers and seneschals. Milton.