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enhancer|ɛnˈhɑːnsə(r), -ˈhæns-|
[f. enhance v. + -er1.]
1. gen. One who, or that which, enhances.
1388Wyclif Exod. xxii. 15 And Moises bildide an auter and clepide the name thereof The Lord myn enhaunsere. 1568Like Will to Like in Hazl. Dodsley III. 316 Thou art the enhancer of my renown. 1611Rich Honest. Age (1844) 65 Pride is the inhaunser of all our miseries. 1832Lytton Eugene A. iv. 96 Errors of life as well as foibles of characters are often the real enhancers of celebrity.
2. spec.
a. One who sets up or raises a weir to an excessive height. (Cf. quot. 1622 s.v. enhancing vbl. n.)
1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 205 It gives the like penalty against him which shall relevy the annoyance, as against the inhauncer.
b. One who raises or seeks to raise prices. † Formerly also absol. (cf. engrosser, forestaller).
1549Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 111 Money makers, inhauncers, and promoters of them selues. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 47 In no wise to be a raiser or enhaunser of rentes. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (1886) 46 Yet he was adjudged an inhauncer for but advising the same. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 151 The Jew, Forestaller and Enhancer To him for all their Crimes did answer. |