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gerent, n. and a. rare.|ˈdʒɪərənt|
[ad. L. gerent-em, pres. pple. of gerĕre to manage.]
A. n. One who holds an office; a manager, ruler. Also attrib.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 80 note, He meaneth the Augurship wherein they were both Gerents at one Time. 1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poems 1850 I. 182 Such a marriage-rite..Shall thrust him headlong from his gerent seat.
fig.1882Stevenson Fam. Stud. 111 And so sympathy pairs with self-assertion, the two gerents of human life on earth.
B. adj. (See quot.)
1656Blount Glossogr., Gerent, bearing or carrying. 1721in Bailey. |