construern.
/ˈkɒnstruːə//kənˈstruːə/ One who construes.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun] > one who construes
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 91 Construare, constructor.
1483 Cath. Angl. A constirrere, expositor, constructor.
1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 67 Detorted, and wrested another way..as is the humor of the Consterer.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. viii. 112 Where the construer sticketh, or goeth amisse, to call him backe to the rule.
1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons i. 5 in Elements Philos. Which definition, not onely to a candid, but also to a rigid construer, is sound.
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