Promptuary

Sacrificio et Magia, it is because the presence of the virtue of the sun, which is the organ and promptuary of all terrestrial and sidereal light, doth more symbolize and agree with a white cock, as well in regard of that colour, as of his property and specifical quality, than with a lion. ❋ Unknown (2002)

For, as Proclus saith, Libro de Sacrificio et Magia, it is because the presence of the virtue of the sun, which is the organ and promptuary of all terrestrial and sidereal light, doth more symbolize and agree with a white cock, as well in regard of that colour, as of his property and specifical quality, than with a lion. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)

Although promptory has not yet found its way into Webster's Third (promptuary, a poorer-sounding variant suggestive of a mortuary, has), it is a worthy and useful addition to the language; for example, good use of it was made in a recent VERBATIM book review [VII, 3, 12]. ❋ Unknown (1981)

They are stored up in a promptuary, in the seventh of the heavens, whence they are drawn as they are needed for human body after human body. [ ❋ Louis Ginzberg (1913)