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deemer|ˈdiːmə(r)|
Forms: 1 dœ́mere, 1–5 démere, 3 demare, 3–5 demer, 5– 6 demar, 5– deemer.
[OE. dœ́mere, f. dœ́man to deem: see -er1.]
One who deems.
†1. A judge. Obs.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xii. 27 Ða dœmeras [iudices] biðon iuera. a1225Ancr. R. 306 Let skile sitten ase demare upon þe dom stol. 1382Wyclif Ps. vii. 12 God riȝtwis demere [1388 iust iuge]. c1440York Myst. xxiii. 142 So schall bothe heuen & helle Be demers of þis dede. c1440Promp. Parv. 118 Demar (P. or domes man), judicator. c1580C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxix. V ii, Then be my causes deemer.
2. One who deems, judges, or opines; † one who censures or (unfavourably) criticizes others.
c1410Love Bonavent. Mirr. xv. 37 (Gibbs MS.) Þat þowe be not a presumptuouse and temerarye deemer of oþer men. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xviii. 42 To wirk vengeance on ane demar. 1557Sir J. Cheke in T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer (1561) ad fin., Counted ouerstraight a deemer of thinges. 1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick Ep. Ded. (1639) 2 Plato that most grave and wise deemer of the state tyrannical. 1854Trench Synon. N.T. xi. 44 Our profound English proverb, ‘Ill doers are ill deemers’.
†b. One that distinguishes or discriminates. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 29 Ne þe skyn of þe fyngris endis..ne schulde nouȝt be a good demere in knowynge hoot, cold [etc.]. 1548–77Vicary Anat. ii. (1888) 23 The Skinne..is made temperate, because he should be a good deemer of heate from colde. |