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relater|rɪˈleɪtə(r)|
[-er1. Cf. relator.]
1. One who relates; a narrator, historian.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 398 marg., The Amazons are still on[e] Nation, further then the relaters or their Authors haue trauelled. 1643Milton Divorce ii. xv. Wks. 1851 IV. 100 The divine relater shews us not the least signe of disliking what was done. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 130 This is not founded upon supposition..of a formed design in the relater to deceive. 1740Johnson Life Drake Wks. IV. 380 It may easily be concluded that the relaters did not diminish the merit of their attempts. 1818Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxiv. (ed. 2) II. 384 The relater declares that he had heard it with his ears, and seen it with his eyes. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm., Gen. xliii. 21 The relater is prone to lump matters in the narration.
†2. One who is related to a person. Obs. rare—1.
1702Clarendon's Hist. Reb. v. §189 Such were continually preferred and countenanced, as were Friends, or Favourers, or Relaters [1888 related] to the chief Authors and Actors of that Arbitrary Power. |