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disconˈtinuer
[f. discontinue v. + -er1.]
One who discontinues. †b. esp. One who discontinues his residence or attendance; an absentee.
a1613Overbury Characters, Puritane Wks. (1856) 80 He ever prayes against non residents, but is himselfe the greatest discontinuer, for he never keepes near his text. 1639in Laud's Rem. II. 174 (T.) The new statutes at Oxford permit none but those who..reside there to take degrees..so that many discontinuers cannot in so short a time proceed as formerly. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. iii. §16 He was no..Discontinuer from his Convent, for a long time. 1655― Hist. Camb. 166 M. Bernard, a Discontinuer, and Lecturer of S. Sepulchers in London. |