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criern. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French crieur ; cry v., -er suffix1. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman criur, crior, criour, crioure, Anglo-Norman and Middle French crieur (French crieur ) person employed to make public announcements (12th cent. in Old French), usher (13th cent.) < crier cry v. + -our , -eur -our suffix, and partly < cry v. + -er suffix1.Recorded earlier in a surname (e.g. Rad. le Criur , Joh. le Cryer , Andrew le Crior , all 13th cent.), although this may reflect the Anglo-Norman rather than the Middle English word. With the α. forms compare -or suffix, -our suffix. 1. society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > town crier or bellman a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 247 A cryour schulde stonde vppon a toure and..he schulde crie, ‘Calo’. c1390 (?c1350) Savinia & Savina 281 in C. Horstmann (1878) 97 Þe forseid mon..Sende a criour þorwh þe cite. a1400 348 Þe kyng wolde sende to his ȝate A Crior to stonde þer ate, Wiþ a Trompe for to blowe. (Harl. 221) 103 Cryar, he þat cryethe yn a merket, or in a feyre, declamator, preco. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. (1882–7) xxvii. 84 Get a cryer and make to be cryed in euery merket place and strete. 1573 tr. F. Hotman p. lxxxi By a cryer and trumpet he caused to be proclaymed, that all the professours of the Religion shoulde appeare presently before him at his house. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1590) i. sig. N8 Long since alas, my deadly Swannish musique Hath made it selfe a crier of the morning. 1625 P. Heylyn (rev. ed.) 614 The Cryers keep a bawling in the steeples..for the people to come to Church. 1680 No. 1529/4 Whoever can give notice of him to..the City Cryer, they shall be well rewarded. 1712 J. Morton v. 329 Yates, the publick Crier of the Town, and his Wife were together 202; the one being 104, and the other wanting Two of 100. 1794 S. T. Coleridge (1956) I. 93 In the flurry of anxiety I sent for the cryer of the Town—and gave him the following to cry about the town and on the beach. 1837 W. Irving II. 265 Repeated by a crier for the benefit of the whole village. 1852 Rep. Commissioners Bribery in St. Albans X. 105 in XXVII. Joseph Flower?—£5 by myself; but then I do not know whether that may not be construed into a fee, that he, as the crier of the town, is entitled to. 1927 G. Atherton ii. xxxii. 284 She heard the voice of the crier running through the streets announcing the good news. 1963 D. D. Karve i. 46 Every adult Brahman in the village was invited by means of criers. 2004 (Nexis) 12 Feb. The chowkidar..was the quintessential Man Friday. A messenger, guide, public crier, watchman, cook, census official, all rolled into one. society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > crier or proclaimer (Titus) (1851) 98 (MED) Ech prest hath the office of a criere to cri bifore the cominge of the highe iuge that men ben conuertid fro here synnis. a1400 (Laud) (1932) l. 1295 (MED) Tytus suþ sett hym..As juge Jewes to jugge..Criour [v.rr. Criours, bedells] callen hem forþ. c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 8 If a bedel or criare schewe þe fre graunt of his lord. a1500 in R. L. Greene (1935) 262 In Westmynster Hall the criers call; The sergeauntes plede apace. 1541 c. 12 §19 The saide clerkes..shal..appoint a criar to make proclamacions, and to call the iuries, and to do other thinges as becometh a criar of a court to do. 1590 R. Harvey 13 Crier, make an' o yes, for Martin to come into the Court. a1634 W. Austin (1635) 195 The Crier goes before the Judge. 1681 138 There was a great shout given, at which the Court being offended, one person who was observed by the Cryer to be particularly concerned in the shout, [etc.]. 1726 J. Swift 37 The Cryer was order'd to dismiss The Court, with his last O yes! a1774 A. Tucker (1777) III. iii. xxii. 370 Their Cryer calls out, Make way for the grand Jury. 1849 J. L. Motley II. xv. 183 The governor must even borrow the archangel's trumpet to outbray the voice of this respectable person, whom I take to be the crier of the court. 1882 W. Ballantine xvi. 158 A remark made by the crier of the court to a friend. 1908 V. de Cleyre in P. Glassgold (2001) 247 The Judge ordered that the witness be called. The crier of the court holloed ‘John Ká-ret, John Ká-ret’. No response. 1996 B. Schwartz 18 All in the packed courtroom rose and remained standing while the Court crier intoned the time-honored cry, ‘Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!’. society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > auctioneer society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero ii. f. 107 To put the goodes of the citiezens in ye cryers mouthe. 1598 J. Florio Incantare..to sell goods by a crier, at who giues most. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch 472 The crier proclaimed aloud: Here is a slave, who buies him, who? 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto iv. 8 I was the first that was put to sale: whereupon, just as the Cryer was offering to deliver me unto whomsoever would buy me. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 73 in J. Swift et al. Common Cryers and Hawkers, who by redoubling the same Words, persuade People to buy their Oysters, green Hastings, or new Ballads. 1759 W. Duncombe tr. Horace Art of Poetry in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace II. 571 Cryers call to Sales the Passers-by. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. ii. i. 152 The whole ancient family of the London criers. 1896 Feb. 408/1 From cashboy at the age of twelve to a crier of ‘extrys’ and popcorn, upward through the experience of a page at the State capitol. 1936 D. Barnes in (1995) v. 71 The criers telling the price of wine to such effect that the dawn saw good clerks full of piss and vinegar and blood-letting in side streets. 2. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] > person the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > [noun] > one who a1425 J. Wyclif (1871) II. 11 Joon was a vois of a criere in desert. 1483 (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 82 A Cryer, clamator. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. (Rawl.) (1898) 215 (MED) Thou shalt ordayne..amyddys, tho that shall caste brondys of fyre brandynge, the Archeris and Criours wyth horribil vioces [read voices]. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger lxiii. 448 The more feruently and lowder they crie..they be called clamorouse criers. 1593 T. Nashe f. 51v You are none of these cryers vnto God. 1607 T. Middleton iv. sig. I3v Marke, Thunder? Dost know thy kue, thou big-voyc'st cryer? 1683 66 No true or pretended Authority since the Reformation winkt more at Papists, than the loud Criers against Popery. 1748 S. Richardson 27 Oct. (1804) I. 120 Simplicity is all their cry; yet hardly do these criers know what they mean by the noble word. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ II. 5 Some will join the cryers-up, and others the cryers-down. 1823 2 264 A joy which belongs not to the redresser of evil, or rather the crier out against evil. 1884 E. H. Britten xxxviii. 323 The dancing, whirling, or spinning Dervishes. The howlers, shouters, singers, or criers. 1914 56 682/2 Few of those criers-out against us slaves of fashion will agree with me. 1982 A. Stevenson 42 These are the criers out in my displays, Their outrage burns in words as I destroy them. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > weeper 1892 Jan. 269/1 You were always a pretty crier, mother. 1946 G. Kanin ii. 110 I told her to take a walk. If there's one thing I can't stand it's a crier. 2003 C. Birch xxxv. 398 Her eyes were raw. She was a crier, like her mother. society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > handbell or small bell society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > small bell 1467 (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/5) f. 164v A small belle called a cryer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.a1387 |
