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purposer|ˈpɜːpəsə(r)| [f. purpose v. + -er1.] One who purposes. †a. One who states a proposition or propounds a question or argument. Obs. rare—1. b. One who has a purpose; one who intends or plans anything.
1481Botoner Tully on Old Age (Caxton) i. ii. (R. Suppl.), How Caton was lerned in the lawe—a pleder and a purposer in the courtys. 1753A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 23 The bloody Purposer of determined Vengeance. 1841Arnold Lect. Mod. Hist. Inaug. (1842) 5 Perhaps I ought not to press the word ‘purpose’; because purpose implies consciousness in the purposer. 1884American VIII. 344 The persistent determination of its purposers. |