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representer|rɛprɪˈzɛntə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1. Cf. also representor.]
†1. One who presents or offers. Obs. rare—1.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 307 b/1 They ben our kepars, oure mynystres.., the berers of our sowles in to heuen and representers of our prayers vnto god.
2.
†a. One who or that which exhibits, shows, or makes manifest; an exhibitor. Obs.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1246/1 As touchyng Images,..that they be representers of vertue & good example. 1605Willet Hexapla Gen. 166 This representer and foreshewer of Christs euerlasting priesthood. 1635Sheph. Holiday ii. v. in Hazl. Dodsley XII. 393 This mirror here, the faithful representer Of that which I adore, your beauteous form. 1685Crowne Sir C. Nice iii. 30 Diving into my pocket, to present the representer with a gratification.
b. One who represents by acting; one who performs, plays, or impersonates; † an actor.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Representador, a representer, a plaier of comedies, actor. 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 377 Though they plainly saw not the madnesse of Ajax, but of the representer acted. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xvi. 80 Any Representer of speech and action, as well in Tribunalls, as Theaters. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. iv. 100 Theatrical conceit was never better impersonated than by the great representer of Pyramus.
3. One who makes a representation, or states a matter in a certain light. Now rare or Obs.
1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. Ep. Ded. 35 It is farre more unlikely that after Ages should know any other truth, but such as serves the ends of the representers. 1686W. Sherlock Papist not Misrep. 21 The difference between the Mis⁓representer and Representer in this article is no more but this. 1703Savage Lett. Antients xlix. 116 The Representers have not only an interest in Falshood, but likewise an Art to make it pass for Truth. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. v. iv. II. ii. 440 One singular Circumstance in Favour of the Character of the Representers.
b. spec. The authors of the Representation presented to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland in 1721 in connexion with the Marrow Controversy. (See marrow n.1 2 e.)
1722Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 644 The second part of the Marrow was published on Saturday, with a long preface and appendix, which is confidence enough in the Representers. 1848A. Thomson Hist. Secession Ch. 24 Meanwhile, the Representers are summoned to appear before the Commission.
†c. An exponent of some thing or person. Obs.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 9 Lawyers..are equally the..representers and misrepresenters, explainers and confounders of our laws. 1766Museum Rust. IV. 121 Mr. Mills gives, as his authority.., Mr. Miller's Gardener's Dictionary..and he does him no honour as his representer.
†4. A representative of a thing or person. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia v. Wks. 1724 II. 813, I am but the representer of all the late flourishing Arcadia. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. iii. 58 Man.., if not as a resembler, yet as a representer of the Macrocosme or Great World [etc.]. 1691Baxter Nat. Ch. viii. 31 His Honour as Gods chief Officer, and in a sort representer.
†b. spec. = representative B. 2. Obs.
1652Observ. Forms Govt. Pref. 6 The people have not the power of choosing Representers to govern, if Governours must be sent of God. 1678Marvell Growth Popery 24 It is to be confessed, that the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses there assembled, are the Representers of the People of England. 1726Swift To a Lady Wks. 1751 XIV. 227 When my Muse officious ventures On the Nation's Representers. |