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enterpriser|ɛntəˈpraɪzə(r)|
[f. enterprise v. + -er1.]
One who attempts an undertaking. Const. of, in. † Also in bad sense, an adventurer.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cclxxxiv. 424 A great enterpriser of dedes of armes. 1545T. Raynalde Womans Booke D 2 The gud courages of al honest enterpreyers [sic] in those matters & al other. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 802/2 The enterprisers of these iusts, was Thomas lord Howard, etc. 1594–5in Chambers Dom. Ann. Scot. I. 259 He was ane simple gentleman, and not ane enterpriser. 1681Ess. Peace & Truth Ch. 17 The Enterprizers of that new Babel. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. ii. §2 (1737) I. 233 The Boast of almost every Enterprizer in the Muses Art. 1748Richardson Clarissa I. xix. 138 The attempts of enterprisers and fortune-seekers. 1830R. Chambers Life Jas. I, I. iii. 93 An enterpriser in the great and hazardous schemes. 1882W. B. Weeden Social Law Labor 32 These are not simply undertakers, inter-takers, or enterprisers. |