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underˈpropper
[f. underprop v.]
One who or that which supports or sustains. † Also spec. (see supportasse).
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 473/1 This vnderpropper is not very proper for to beare vp his bilding. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus K ij, The strongest vnderproppers of her princely state. 1655Cromwell Let. to Goodson Oct. (Carlyle), That Roman Babylon, of which the Spaniard is the great underpropper. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. i. i. 1 For which reason they..style the chief Authour and under⁓propper thereof..by the name of Antichrist. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 43, I had a third chance..of becoming an under-propper of the state. |