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▪ I. seer1|sɪə(r), in sense 1 also ˈsiːə(r)|
Forms: 4 seere, 5 scere, 5–6 sear, 6 seear, 7 seare, 4– seer.
[f. see v. + -er1. Cf. G. seher.]
1. a. gen. One who sees. rare. † seldom seer, one who sees seldom. Cf. see-er.
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 59 A certeyne childe that hadde lost hys sight..receyued hit ageyne. And he, seygne with othir seers the mercy of God..gretly he magnyfied and prechid. c1440Jacob's Well 102 Þanne alle þe scerys weryn astonyed. 1562A. Brooke Romeus & Iuliet 1070 And seemely grace that wonted so to glad the seers sight. 1656Jer. Taylor Let. to Evelyn 16 Apr., Strangers & seldome seers feel the beauty of them more than you who dwell with them. 1701G. Stanhope Augustine's Medit. i. xiii. (1720) 25 God, the searcher and seer of Hearts. 1736Butler Anal. i. i. 22 His Eyes are the Seers or his Feet the Movers. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Productions Mod. Art, Or what associating league to the imagination can there be between the seers and the seers not, of a presential miracle? 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 376 Seer of the vision of peace, that yet couldst not see the things which belong unto thy peace.
b. Comb. seer-off: cf. see v. 7 b. (nonce-use.)
1909Beerbohm Yet Again 25 Giving the date of their departure, and a description by which the seer-off can identify them on the platform.
2. One to whom divine revelations are made in visions. In mod. use occas. transf., applied to a person gifted with profound spiritual insight.
Originally rendering L. videns (Vulg.), Gr. βλέπων (LXX), Heb. rōēh, said in 1 Sam. ix. to have been an earlier synonym of prophet.
1382Wyclif 1 Kings ix. 9 Cometh, and goo we to the seer. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 216 b, And therfore (sayth scripture) they that now be called prophetes, in olde tyme were called seers. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 553 How soon hath thy prediction, seer blest, Measur'd this transient world. 1718Pope Iliad i. 93 That sacred Seer whose comprehensive View The past, the present, and the future knew. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. iv. 111 The king..sought the aid of the seer Melampus. 1884Contemp. Rev. Mar. 311 The admiration..for Maurice as a thinker and seer.
attrib.1844Mrs. Browning Sounds iii. 6 The seer-saint of Patmos. 1851Carlyle Sterling ii. vi. (1872) 137 Here actually is a real seer-glance..of an eye that is human.
3. A magician; one who has the power of second sight. Also a crystal-gazer, a scryer.
1661‘Montelion’ Don Juan Lamberto ii. xi. N 4 b, Now as soon as Pacolet the Dwarf espyed him [the Necromancer]; Quoth he unto the Seer [etc.]. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 244 Dee..appointed his Friend Kelley to be his Seer or Skryer or Speculator, that is to take notice what the spirits did. 1763‘Theophilus Insulanus’ Second Sight 78 A number of Seers whose predictions have exactly tallied with circumstances of time and place. 1889Proc. Soc. Psych. Research xiv. 502 The seer in this case was a girl,..whose visions were perceived by means of a glass of water.
†4. An overseer; an inspector. Obs.
1498Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 28/1 Settar and sear of skinnys within the said burgh. 1604Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 111 James Short and Duncane Patersoun to be seares of the wark.
5. Comb. seerlike adj.; seercraft, the prophetic art.
1883R. C. Jebb Sophocles i. 139 Thus did the messages of seer-craft [Oedipus Tyrannus 723 ϕῆµαι µαντικαί] map out the future. 1913G. Murray tr. Euripides' Rhesus 6 Sage and prophet, learned in the way of seercraft.
1849J. G. Whittier Proem in Poems p. iv, Nor mine the seer⁓like power to show The secrets of the heart and mind. 1975New Yorker 21 Apr. 96/2 One indication of the seer⁓like quality of these underwriting judgments can be glimpsed in the Continental Insurance underwriters' manual concerning the accident probabilities of drivers.
Hence ˈseerhood.
1884M. Boole in Jrnl. Educ. 1 Sept. 344 Certain individuals have had a special tendency to inspirations of sudden perception of new truth...It is variously called Intuition, Genius, or Seerhood.
▪ II. ‖ seer2 Anglo-Ind.|sɪə(r)|
Forms: 7 ceer, sear, seere, sera, serre, 9 ser (erron. sír), 8– seer. pl. seer, seers.
[Hindi ser.]
A denomination of weight varying in different parts of India from over 3 lb. to 8 ounces. In districts under British rule it was officially equal to a kilogramme, or 2·2 lb. avoirdupois. Also used as a measure of capacity; the official regulation (see quot. 1871) made it equal to a litre, or 1·76 pint.
1618in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) 47, 52½ tole make a seere of 30 pices. 1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 85 There is but one kind of weight all over the Kingdome of Guzuratta, which they call Maon,..which weighs fourty Ceers, and makes thirty pounds and a half. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 209, 1 Cattee is 21/10 Sear. 1787W. Chambers tr. Short Acc. Marratta St. 30 Rice..is sold for ten or twelve Seer for a Rupee. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master viii. 217 His master had not one Fanam, To purchase half a seer of gram. 1819F. Hamilton Nepal 216, 72 Paises = 1 Ser = lb. avoirdupois 1·666. 1842G. T. Vigne Trav. Kashmir I. 196 The ser at Lodiana is equal to about 2 lbs. English. 1845Stocqueler Brit. India (1854) 209 A seer (a full quart) of the best [rose-water] may be obtained for eight annas. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 33 He refused the cash, and bartered his milk to us for a sír of rice. 1871Indian Weights, etc. Act in Unrepealed Gen. Acts (1876) II. 1426 The units..shall be—for weights, the said ser [previously prescribed to be equal to the French Kilogramme des Archives]; for measures of capacity, a measure containing one such ser of water at its maximum density, weighed in a vacuum. 1902Man II. 60 Bringing with him one and a quarter seer of rice.
▪ III. seer(e
variant forms of sere n.1, sere a.
▪ IV. seer
see seir-fish, seer-fish. |