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ˈconcioˌnator rare or Obs.
[a. L. agent-n. f. contiōnāt-: see above. Cf. OF. concionateur.]
1. One who makes speeches or harangues; a preacher.
1623Cockeram, Concionator, a Preacher. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xi. 246 Like some simple Concionator, who naming his Text in a Country Auditory, shut the book, and took leave of it, for the whole howre. 1830Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. 129 No priest, but a concionator.
2. (See quot.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Concionator..In our ancient Writers, a Common Council-man, a Mot-worthy, a Freeman call'd to the Hall or Assembly. |