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pursuer|pəˈsjuːə(r)|
Forms: 4 pursuwer, -suere, 5 -suour, 5–6 persewar, -er, 6 perssouar, 4– pursuer.
[f. pursue v. + -er1.]
One who pursues.
†1. A persecutor. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 138 Þei ben manquelleris & pursueris of crist. 1382― 1 Tim. i. 13, I first was a blasfeme, or dispiser of God, and pursuwer [1388 pursuere], and ful of wrongis. 1513Douglas æneis vi. ii. 22 Nor Juno, Troianis persewar expres, Sall nevir mair failȝe in ȝour contrary. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. i. 16 b, So cruel persewers of cryst in his members. 1642Rogers Naaman 106 Desperate opposites and pursuers of all grace, of Christ and Christians.
†2. = pursuivant 1. Obs. rare—1.
1384–5Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 594, j pursuer de armes.
3. Civil and Sc. Law. A suitor; a plaintiff, a petitioner; a prosecutor.
c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1534, Ful many swyche pursuours þere ben, Þat for vs take, & ȝeue vs nat a myte. c1470Harding Chron. clviii. i, Florence therle of Holand, and his compeers That claymed then the croune of Scotland..as pursuers, Came to kyng Edward. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 31 The demaundantes pleyntyffes or pursuers of the same accions. 1564–5Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 318 The saidis Gilbert Millar, persewar, and the said Johnne Hammiltoun comperand bayth personalie. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. ii. iv. (1737) 375 The Lord Advocate..is the Pursuer of all Capital Crimes before the Justiciary. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 317 What is your suit, Euthyphro? are you the pursuer or the defendant? 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §37 There is the same fiction if he be either pursuer or defender in an action on the Aquilian law for wrongful damage to property.
†4. A besieger, an assailant. Sc. Obs. Cf. pursue v. 6 b.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. i. xxx. I. 143 The seige lastit langer nor the perssouaris expectatioun was. Ibid., The persewaris war all maist tint in the lang seiging.
5. One who follows after or chases with intent to capture; in quot. 1824, a suitor, wooer.
1539Bible (Great) Josh. ii. 16 Gett you into the mountayne, lest the pursuers mete you. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 21 Quhill a persewar is following ony thing he wantis. 1728Morgan Algiers II. iv. 284 Above 40,000 died by the Weapons of their merciless Pursuers, the Spanish Cavalry. 1824Byron Juan xii. xxxvii, Sometimes they accept some long pursuer, Worn out with importunity. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 14 The fox turns with savage fury on his pursuer.
6. One who pursues some object or aim.
1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xiv. 70 A Generosity too rarely found to be presumed on, especially in the pursuers of Wealth. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 318, I [am] an eager pursuer of Truth. a1745Swift Enq. Behav. Queen's Last Ministry Wks. 1841 I. 499/1 Of his pleasures of which he had indeed been too great and criminal a pursuer. |