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▪ I. reˈpairer1 rare. [f. repair v.1 + -er1.] One who goes or resorts (to a place).
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 215 For reparers from forreine countries into his, whom he will haue well entertained. 1598Stow Surv. x. (1603) 85 The inhabitants and repayrers to this Citie. 1615Hieron Wks. I. 632 Art thou..a reuerent and often repairer to Gods board? ▪ II. repairer2|rɪˈpɛərə(r)| [f. repair v.2 + -er1.] One who or that which restores or mends.
1504Lady Margaret tr. De Imitatione iv. iv. 266 The defender of my soule and the repayrer of the weykenesse of man. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 260 Welcum reparar of woddis, treis, and bewis. c1557Abp. Parker Psalter Collect 377 The repayrer, upholder and builder of all mansions. 1605Timme Quersit. ii. ii. 110 This vital heate..is the repairer and conseruer of life. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 198 He who was to be..the Repairer and Restorer of Human Nature. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 308 The Steps, by the Fault of the Repairers, are hampered at present. 1761Misc. in Ann. Reg. 199/1 There is an inferior sort of repairers of wrongs, and reformers of abuses. 1826Southey in Q.R. XXXIV. 308 He was a great repairer of churches and steeples. 1899Fortn. Rev. Jan. 116 The repairer..alleged that the steel was inferior. |