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beseecher|bɪˈsiːtʃə(r)|
Also 4–6 besecher.
[f. beseech v. + -er1.]
1. One who beseeches; a suppliant, a petitioner.
1382Wyclif Zeph. iii. 10 Fro thennis my bisecheris..shuln brynge a ȝift to me. 1508Fisher Wks. i. 253 Shewe hymselfe yrefull ayenst his subgecte and besecher. c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxxxv, Let no vnkinde, no faire beseechers kill. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. vi. 43 He terrified the poor beseecher into immediate silence.
2. spec. A petitioner to the king or his courts.
c1400Petit. Ld. Vesey in Whitaker Hist. Craven (1812) 251 Yor said besecher standeth gretely chargeably to the execucon of..the last wille of, etc. 1448J. Shillingford Lett. (1871) 130 Iugges betwene the seid Bisshop..and your seid besechers. 1488–9Act 4 Hen. VII, xxii, Youre besechers shall ever pray, etc. 1523Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII, vi, It shalbe leful to your said besecher. |