I.one who washes corpses and prepares them for burning, an undertaker: “pollinctores sunt, qui mortuos curant,” Non. 157, 20; cf.: “pollinctores dicti sunt, qui funera morientium accurant,” Fulg. p. 559, 9; Plaut. Poen. prol. 63; id. As. 5, 2, 60; Varr. ap. Non. 157, 21 sq.; Mart. 10, 97, 3; Dig. 14, 3, 5; Sid. Ep. 3, 13; of buriers, Vulg. Ezech. 39, 15.
pollinctor (or pollictor ), ōris, m. pollingo,