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doomster|ˈduːmstə(r)|
In 5 domstere.
[modification of demester, dempster, deemster, after doom v. and n.]
1. A judge, doomer. arch.
1442Cursor M. 9737 (Bedford) Fadir, rightwis domstere! 1861Lowell Poet. Wks. (1890) IV. 4 Then let him hearken for the doomster's feet! 1882Sat. Rev. 11 Nov. 627 Doomsters..propounding their own construction of rubrical niceties with Sinaitic thunders.
2. In a Scottish court of law, the official (usually the executioner) who formerly read or repeated the sentence; = dempster 2.
1609Skene Reg. Maj. 158 The Domster sould be sworne. a1640Jackson Creed x. xlix. §2 They will..be enforced to borrow a more fit expression of His office from our sister nation, and instyle Him to be the doomster or doomsman of the quick and the dead. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxvi, ‘Doomster’, he continued, ‘repeat the sentence to the prisoner’. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v. Doom, The doom or sentence was..pronounced by the public executioner, or doomster as he was called—a barbarous practice, which was abolished by Act of Adjournal, 16th March 1773.
attrib.1881Palgrave Visions of Eng. 131 Before is the doomster-day, And..the shambles of Fotheringay. |