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seconder|ˈsɛkəndə(r)|
Also 9 Sc. (in sense 2) secondar.
[f. second a. and v. + -er1.]
I. [from the adj.]
1. One who comes second, or in the second rank. Now only local, a second hand on a farm.
In quot. 1898 used to represent Anglo-Latin secundarius, secondary n. 1 b.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 35 To retire..and charge againe, giuing place to his next fellow, or seconder. 1883Goole (Yorksh.) Weekly Times 31 Aug. 5/2 (Advt.) Wanted, a Farm Servant, as seconder. 1898A. F. Leach Beverley Act Bk. I. Introd. 72 The Seconders (secundarii), clerks of the second form at Exeter [Cathedral]. Ibid., In June, 1529, all the Seconders complained that [etc.].
2. A student of the second grade in social rank at St. Andrews University. Obs. exc. Hist.
1684A. Skeine Let. in Scot. Antiq. (1897) XI. 20 If he be a seconder his expence will be as folous. 1807J. Grierson St. Andrews 160 Seconders and Terners are the only distinctions now in use. 1827Ferrie in Evid. Comm. Univ. Scot. (1837) III. (St. Andrews) 35 The Primars are the sons of Noblemen; the Secondars are what they call Gentlemen Commoners in England. 1907Lang Hist. Scot. IV. xvi. 406 All the winners are armigerous, so probably they were Secondars, as a rule.
II. [from the vb.]
3. a. One who supports (what is proposed by another); one who furthers the designs of another.
1623Chaworth in Kempe Losely MSS. (1836) 477 The Parlement cumd, and in y⊇ first weeke y⊇ proposition being a breach wth Spaine,..&c. and the Prince y⊇ seconder of all Buckingham could propound. 1827Lytton Falkland i. 66, I find in myself a powerful seconder to my uncle's wishes. 1891J. Winsor Columbus viii. 175 Perez is said to have found a seconder in Luis de Santangel.
b. spec. One who seconds a motion.
1678Marvell Growth Popery 52 He Interrupted him and the Seconder of that Motion. 1780Burke On Durat. Parlt. Sp. (1816) II. 173, I do not tell the respectable mover and seconder..that [etc.]. 1828Brougham in Hansard's Parl. Deb. XVIII. 49 His hon. and learned friend, the seconder, as well as the hon. mover of the Address. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. ix. 139 In the House of Lords, a question may be proposed without a seconder. 1890A. G. Bell in Proc. 12th Conv. Instructors of Deaf 330, I would like to add my mite to the seconder of this resolution.
c. One who seconds a nomination or candidature introduced by a proposer.
1864Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 219 Will you write your name in the candidates' book as his seconder? |