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essayer|ɛˈseɪə(r)|
[f. essay v. + -er.]
1. In various senses of the vb.; = assayer 1, 2, 3.
1611Cotgr., Credentier, a Princes Taster, Essayer, Cup⁓bearer. 1663Blair Autobiog. iii. (1848) 57 The long-rested land yielded such plentiful harvests that many followed the first essayers. 1870J. Roskell in Eng. Mech. 18 Mar. 647/2 The centre, which the essayer calls the eye.
†2. One who ‘essays’ a certain form of composition, or attempts to treat a certain subject; in later use = essayist. Obs.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 353 As a late Essayer upon the Apocalyps imagines. 1711Addison Spect. No. 68 ⁋2 He [Tully] hath been followed by all the Essayers upon Friend⁓ship, that have written since his time. 1711Dennis Refl. on Pope's Essay on Criticism, He was, like this Essayer, a very indifferent poet. 1712Hughes Spect. No. 525 ⁋3 The Essayers in Lampoon and Satyr. |