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presenter|prɪˈzɛntə(r)|
[f. present v. + -er1. See also presentor.]
One who presents, in various senses of the verb.
1. One who presents a person to a benefice, or to any position or office, or for a degree; one who formally introduces a person, esp. at court; in quot. 1597, a sponsor. (See also presentor 1 b.)
1544Supplic. to King (E.E.T.S.) 38 The presenter of the clercke to a benefyce. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxiv. §5 It is the Church which doth offer them to Baptisme by the Ministery of Presenters. 1706A. Boyer Ann. Q. Anne IV. 254 The prolocutor..chose for his presenter the Dean of Christ Church..who accordingly presented him..with an elegant Latin speech. 1830Godwin Cloudesley I. xiv. 235 We had been presented to King George the First,..the presenter being Robert earl Danvers. 1903Daily Chron. 26 June 5/1 Lord Kelvin..The first honorary Doctor of Science of London University was described by his presenter on Wednesday as ‘a greater philosopher than Democritus, and one in whom are united the qualities of Archimedes and Aristotle’.
2. Law. One who makes a presentment (of a fact, or an offence, etc.); = presentor 1 a. Now rare.
1545Brinklow Compl. ii. 11 The thyrd [part] to the presenter that can iustyfye the matter. 1561in Sir J. T. Gilbert Calr. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1891) II. 14 The presenter, fynder or spier of thoffence to have thone haulfe. 1656in 1st Cent. Hist. Springfield, Mass. (1898) I. 251 John Harman was chosen to ye Office of a Presenter to present breaches of ye Lawes. 1705Hearne Collect. 2 Sept. (O.H.S.) I. 40 If we consider of wt Persons the juries consist, & who are the Presenters. 1891Maitland & Baildon Court Baron (Selden Soc.) 100 The said Benedict complaineth of all the presenters that falsely and maliciously have they indicted him.
3. One who makes a present; a donor, giver.
1548Gest Pr. Masse Ded. to Cheke, Not respectynge so muche the vylenes therof, as the good mynde of the presenter of y⊇ same. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. Ded., One presented vnto him a booke..the presenter replied. 1699R. L'Estrange Erasm. Colloq. (1711) 37 He tells us the Weight, the Price, and the Presenter of every Piece. 1903Motor. Ann. 184 Mr. Gordon Bennett, the presenter of the Cup, is entitled to a seat on every such Committee.
4. One who ‘presents’ a part in a play; an actor. arch. or Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 247 The deuice did teach the eyes the present miserie of the Presenter himselfe. 1606Harington in Nichols Progr. Jas. I (1828) II. 73 Strange Pageantries..of this sort in our Queen's days I was sometime an humble Presenter and Assistant. 1634Ford Perkin Warbeck iii. ii, Are the presenters ready?..[Stage direct.] Enter at one door four Scotch Anticks [etc.]. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xx, His skill in performing the presenter of Pyramus.
5. One who presents an address, petition, memorial, an order, bill, cheque, etc.
1714J. Macky Journ. thro. Eng. (1724) I. xi. 213 These Officers..are the Presenters to his Majesty of all Memorials. 1766W. Gordon Gen. Counting-ho. 364 No presenter [of a bill] is obliged to wait longer. 1784J. Brown Hist. Brit. Ch. (1820) II. iii. 48 To intimidate the presenters of this remonstrance. 1864Daily Tel. 27 Apr., Addresses were presented to Garibaldi this afternoon... The presenters and a large number of other persons had interviews with the General in the library. 1868Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 101 §64 Any person seeking to obtain a Crown writ shall lodge..in the office of the presenter of signatures a draft of the proposed writ. 1881Philad. Record (U.S.) No. 3473. 6 The rules of the bank required that the presenter of a check should be identified.
6. One who (or that which) presents something to the mind or to notice.
1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (1873) §232 But if we ask,..What idea does this word [thing] present? we answer, None! There is no creature, no subject of speech or of thought, which can claim the word thing as its presenter. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. i. iii. §3. 53 The presenter in literature of this glittering spectacle is the historian Jean Froissart.
7. One who presents or introduces a programme on radio or television.
1967Listener 24 Aug. 249/2 A few words spoken into a camera by a presenter can smooth..an awkward script. 1974Radio Times 16 Feb. 17/3 You and Yours. Presenter Lyn MacDonald. 1976Evening Times (Glasgow) 1 Dec. 6/1 It's the fact that the Nationwide presenter made a quick dash by air from London to Abbotsinch and then on to Paisley. |