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tributor, tributer|ˈtrɪbjuːtə(r)|
Also (5 -ir), 5–6 -our, 6 tribitour.
[f. tribute v. (or ? n.) + -or, -our (after agent-nouns from L. or F.), and -er1 (on English analogies). Cf. rare late L. tribūtor one who gives.]
†1. One who pays tribute. Also fig. Obs.
1483Cath. Angl. 393/2 A Tributir, tributarius. 1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices iii. (1540) 152 That the cytes that Lucius Scylla made fre..shulde be tributers agayne. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. xxiv. (1870) 181, I am a Venesien..For part of my possession, I am come tributor to the Turke. 1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 60 The prouince of Santon 3. millions and 700. thousand tributers. 1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 70 The mighty Silver-river..His tributorie sandes to him reveal'd; Nor sdained it to be a tribitour, Vnto the Oceans mightie Emperour. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 435.
†2. A giver, bestower. Obs. rare—1.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 50 b, Almightie God geuer & tributor of this glorious victory.
3. Mining. A miner who works ‘on tribute’: see tribute n. 3 c.
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 188 The Tributor..has several persons concerned with him. 1778[see tribute n. 3 a]. 1855J. R. Leifchild Cornwall Mines 147 The ore sold for {pstlg}182:2:2, and, as the tribute was 7s. 6d. in the pound, the share for the tributers was {pstlg}68:5:9. 1875Melbourne Spectator 29 May 46/1 A fight between the few Europeans employed on the works and the Chinese tributers. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 218/1 Capitalists, landowners, inventors, Cornish tributers..are all brought under the stimulating influence of self-interest. 1886,1911[see tribute n. 3 a]. 1902Daily Record 1 Oct. 4 The concessions by the late Boer Government..have got into hands so grasping that their excessive terms to tributors for water-rights and power have kept a large area of these fields fallow. |