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truster|ˈtrʌstə(r)|
Also technically 7 -or.
[f. trust v. + -er1.]
One who trusts, confides, or relies; one who believes or credits; one who gives credit, a creditor.
1537Orig. & Sprynge Sectes 42 Onely they yt be earnest trusters & beleuers in God are Christen men. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 172 Nor shall you doe mine eare that violence, To make it truster of your owne report Against your selfe. 1607― Timon iv. i. 10 Bankrupts..out with your Kniues, And cut your Trusters throates. 1649W. Ball Power of Kings 5 It is against Reason..that such Trustees or Stewards should derive no Power from the People their Trustors. 1800A. Swanston Serm. & Lect. I. 181 The trusters have been put to the severest trials. 1870Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xl. 3 Through grace [they] shall receive faith and become trusters in Jehovah.
b. Sc. Law. spec. One who puts property in trust; correlative to trustee 2.
1675in W. M. Morison Dict. Decis. (1807) 16173. 1741 Ibid. 16201 Where a trust does not arise from any deed or disposition of the truster, but from the voluntary interposition of the trustee [etc.]. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 1010 Where the truster had conveyed his whole estate, heritable and moveable, to trustees,..it was held [etc.]. 1885Law Rep. 10 App. Cas. 452 The truster had a very large amount of personalty in Scotland. |