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discusser|dɪˈskʌsə(r)|
[f. as discuss v. + -er1.]
He who or that which discusses, in various senses. †a. One who settles or decides questions (obs.). b. One who engages in discussion or debate. †c. A medicine that disperses humours, etc. (obs.).
a.1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. vi. 337 Quha was cheife discusser in controuersies, quhom thay call grett Justice of Jngland. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. viii. vi. §12 That thereof God himself was inventor, disceptator, lator, the deviser, the discusser, the deliverer.
b.1611Cotgr., Discuteur, a discusser, examiner, debater. 1689Answ. Desertion Discussed in 11th Collect. Papers Present Juncture of Affairs 6 Thus the Discusser rambles out of one Untruth into another. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 349 A discusser of controversies against Bellarmine. 1893Chicago Advance 23 Nov., [The biblical preacher] is not a discusser, whose office is to break to pieces and sift for better construction and consolidation.
c.1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 29 This Minium-plaster is a good discusser of hot humors. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 31 First give astringent Syrups, then add discussers. |