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contributor|kənˈtrɪbjuːtə(r)|
Also 6 -our, 7–8 -er.
[a. AF. contributour (mod.F. -eur) = L. type *contribūtōr-em, agent-n. f. contribūt-: see contribute and -or.]
One that contributes or gives to a common fund; one that bears a part in effecting a result.
1530–1Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 15 They..shall not be contributours nor charged to the payement of the sayed somme. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 215, I promist we would be Contributors, And beare his charge of wooing whatsoere. 1667Decay Chr. Piety xvi. ⁋1 A fourth grand contributer to our dissentions is passion. 1676W. Hubbard Happiness of People 2 By which our Saviour preferred the bounty of the poor Widow above all the rest of the Contributers. 1776Adam Smith W.N. v. ii. (1869) II. 416 Every tax ought to be levied..in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. Mod. Among the contributors to the testimonial are, etc.
†b. One who pays tribute. Obs.
1550Nicolls Thucyd. 155 (R.) Certayn barbarous or estrangers be contrybutours vnto the Syracusians. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. xii. 91 The people being contributers vsed him kindly. 1630― Trav. & Adv. 35 Himselfe as rich..as any Prince in Christendome, and yet a Contributor to the Turke.
c. One who contributes literary articles to a journal, magazine, or other joint literary work.
1750Johnson Rambler No. 56 ⁋16 Let therefore the next friendly contributor..observe the cautions of Swift, and write secretly in his own chamber. 1843Macaulay Ess. Pref., The author has sometimes, like other contributors to periodical works, been under the necessity of writing at a distance from all books. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, The ‘Times’ Wks. (Bohn) II. 119 It draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors. |