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▪ I. inditer|ɪnˈdaɪtə(r)|
Forms: α. 4 enditour, 5 -dytour, 5–9 -diter, 7 -ditor, -dighter, (8 erron. endicter. β. 5 indyter, 6 -dytor, 6–7 -dighter, 6– inditer.
[ME. (and ? AF.) enditour (L. type *indictātōr-em), f. endite, indite v. + agent-suffix -our, -or, passing at length into -er: cf. diter.]
One who indites; one who composes or dictates a literary work, speech, or letter; an author, writer, composer.
α1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 173 In his tyme Plautus Latinus, þe grete Pompeus his enditour and faire speker, Libertus þe doctour, florischeþ at Rome [L. Cujus diebus Plautus Latinus rhetor, magni Pompeii libertus, doctor Romæ claruit]. 1390Gower Conf. II. 82 Enditours Of old cronique and eke auctours. 1483Cath. Angl. 115/1 An Enditer, dictator, indictator. a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 267 [He] presented his Letters, desiring Amphialus, that..he would consider that he was onely the bearer, and not the enditer. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 364 The basest and the hungriest endighter. 1664–94South Twelve Serm. II. 142 It is the simplicity of the Heart, and not of the Head, that is the best Enditer of our Petitions. 1717J. Fox Wanderer (1718) 46, I could hardly with-hold my Compassion from the fair Endicter [of the Fiction]. 1813W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXV. 215 This Memoir..must have had Joseph for its main compiler, enditer, or author. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 47 The feeling enditer of Sympathy's tale.
β1483Cath. Angl. 195/2 An Indyter of lettirs, dictator. 1579Fulke Ref. Rastel 734 Bookes of holy scripture, the indighters of which..be not knowne. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. vi. 249 We know the inditer, though we doubt of the penman. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. xxxvi. 245 You will think your ward very bold to address you by Letter: especially as she is a very poor inditer. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. xxvii. 518 Jonas Clark, the bold inditer of patriotic state papers.
▪ II. inditer
obs. form of indicter. |