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setter-up
[See set v.1 154.]
One who sets up (in any sense).
1563Homilies ii. Agst. Peril Idol. iii. 59 b, The erecter, setter vp, and mainteyner of Images in Churches and Temples. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. iii. 37 Thou setter vp, and plucker downe of Kings. 1607Middleton Michaelm. Term ii. iii, I am but a yong setter vp; the vttermost I dare venture vppon't is three-score pound. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Honest Man's Fort. ii. i, Old occupations have too many setters up to prosper. 1713Berkeley Hylas & Phil. iii. Wks. 1871 I. 359, I do not pretend to be a setter-up of new notions. 1853R. S. Hawker in Life & Lett. (1905) 251 Neither can I congratulate your Setter-up [i.e. compositor] on his accuracy. 1876Morris æneids viii. 134 Dardanus first setter-up and sire of Ilian wall. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 43 Spinning and weaving machine maker... Setter-up. |