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presentor|prɪˈzɛntə(r)| [Early mod.E. presentour, a. AF. presentour = F. présenteur, agent-n. f. présenter to present: see -or.] †1. a. One who makes a presentment: = presenter 2. Obs.[c1340Modus tenendi Curias in Court Baron (Selden Soc. 1891) 97 Ore doit le seneschal fere elire xij. fraunkes tenauntz..qe puissent oier le presentement de presentour sil facent nul conseylement.] 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 10 The stewarde with two of the presentours shall assesse..suche amerciament to them shall seeme reasonable. 1592in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. xv. 277 Thone halfe [of the fine] to the comon chamber, and thother halfe to the presentor. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 270 Ouer euery Hundred is written (before the Iurors) Alder. Iuratorum with a name prefixt, then Electores Iuratorum with two names, and next the Presentors. b. One who presents to a benefice: = presenter 1. rare.
1865Nichols Britton II. 193 If..the presentor pending the presentation dies [orig. iv. iv. §13 Si..pendaunt le presentement, moerge le presentour]. 1904A. F. Pollard Cranmer vii. 195 The sale of benefices was to be punished by deprivation of the presentee, and by forfeiture of the presentor's patronage. 2. = presentoir (? misprint).
1882Pall Mall G. 28 June 10/1 A silver-gilt presentor, formed as an infant Bacchus on a barrel, 9½ in. high, 290 guineas. |