Definition of macer:

part of speech: noun

An officer who carries the mace before persons in authority.

Usage examples:

• Indeed, the taking off of Macer in Africa by Trebonius, and Fonteius by Valens in Germany, had a fair pretense, they being dreaded as armed commanders, having their soldiers at their bidding; but why refuse Turpilianus, an old man and unarmed, permission to try to clear himself, if any part of the moderation and equity at first promised were really to come to a performance? Clough, Arthur Hugh in "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans".

• It is related that Licinius Macer a man himself of great power in the city, and supported also by the assistance of Crassus, was accused before him of extortion, and that, in confidence on his own interest and the diligence of his friends, whilst the judges were debating about the sentence, he went to his house, where hastily trimming his hair and putting on a clean gown, as already acquitted, he was setting off again to go to the Forum; but at his hall door meeting Crassus, who told him that he was condemned by all the votes, he went in again, threw himself upon his bed, and died immediately. Clough, Arthur Hugh in "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans".

• Macer and Mundungus are taken from Mr. Congreve's Epistle to Sir Richard Temple; So Macer and Mundungus school the Times, And write in rugged Verse the softer Rules of Rhimes. John Oldmixon in "An Essay on Criticism".