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relator|rɪˈleɪtə(r)|
Also 7 -our.
[a. L. relātor, agent-n. f. relāt-: see relate v. Cf. F. relateur, Sp., Pg. relator, It. relatore.]
1. a. A relater, narrator. (Common c 1600–1750.)
1591Garrard's Art Warre 126 The discription by draught beeing well knowen, accompanied with the liuely voice of the Relator. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 562 You are an vnfaithfull Relatour of the practise of the Primitiue Church. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. ix. 72 A faithful Relator of Experiments. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 15 The Relators of this Story..were doubtless fully perswaded of the truth of it. 1759Johnson Rasselas xxxvi[i], Imlac..was not very confident of the veracity of the relator. 1846Trench Mirac. iii. (1862) 130 It will cause little wonder that two or three relators have in part seized diversely the culminating points of a story.
†b. (One's) informant. Obs. rare.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 349 It may be that he or his relator had seen them playing together as Goats do. 1610Donne Lett. Wks. 1839 VI. 338 When this place affords anything worth your hearing, I will be your relator.
†c. The historian of a place. Obs. rare—1.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 641 Of that little Parish..he was in effect the Relator.
2. Law. An informer; spec. one who supplies the materials for an information by the Attorney General (see relation 1 b).
1603Owen Pembrokeshire i. (1892) 6 Especiallye promoters newelye named Relatours, a generacion hated both of the good and badd people. 1632Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 96 Sr John Finch for the relator this day replyed. 1674N. Riding Rec. VI. 222 This Court doth approve of, admit, and allow Alex. Dixon to use, exercise and follow the office of a Relator. 1710Act 9 Anne c. 20 §4. 1768 Blackstone Comm. III. 427 The attorney general, at the relation of some informant, (who is usually called the relator) files ex officio an information in the court of chancery. 1823Act. 4 Geo. IV, c. 76 §23 To the Knowledge or Belief of the Relator or Relators so making Oath. 1865Pall Mall G. 29 May 6 The relator..is a descendant of a brother of the second wife of the testator.
†3. A relative. Obs. rare—1. (Cf. relater 2.)
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 246 The Arch-flamen carried the holy Fire, attended by the Priests and three hundred sixty five Youths who were their relators.
4. Linguistics. A sentence-element (usu. a preposition) serving to relate one phrase to another.
1933[see descriptor]. 1953W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. v. 157 The relatum of a language corresponds to the logical category of substance and finds its pure expression in proper nouns; the descriptum corresponds to quantity and has its pure expression in numerals; the descriptor with quality and is pure in adverbs; the relator with relation and is pure in prepositions. 1965Language XLI. 73 Thus the whole string is a relator-axis phrase of which on manifests relator and the rest manifests axis. 1978Language LIV. 353 Relator is assigned to constituents that serve to introduce embedded clauses (e.g. that), and is thus partially co-extensive with the complementizer of recent TG. |