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discoverern. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French descouvreur ; discover v., -er suffix1. Etymology: Partly (i) < Middle French descouvreur (French découvreur ) scout, spy (first half of the 13th cent. in Old French as descovreur ), person who finds out or discovers something previously unknown (a1460; rare before a1544; < descouvrir discover v. + -eur -er suffix2), and partly (ii) < discover v. (compare forms at that entry) + -er suffix1. Compare Spanish descubridor (c1400; a1260 as †descobridor), Portuguese descobridor (15th cent.), Italian (now archaic) discopritore (a1543), and also post-classical Latin discooperator spy (14th cent. in a British source).With forms in -our compare -our suffix. society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 27469 Þe tent if he tell o þis man O scrift es he discurer þan. (Harl. 221) 122 Dyscurer, or dyscowerer [a1500 King's Cambr. discuerer] of cownselle, arbitrer, anubicus. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. S4v, in (rev. ed.) Wine, saith Ouid, is the discouerer of secrets. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in (1857) II. 606 The authors are searched for, and great rewards offered to the discoverers. 1698 J. Norris IV. 247 Jesus Christ is the First Discoverer of the other World. 1710 S. Palmer 198 There is somewhat of a universal abhorrence in men's minds to a discoverer. 1777 T. Campbell xxvii. 251 If you don't give me what money I want, I'll turn discoverer. 1875 W. Scarborough viii. viii. 169 Wine is a discoverer of secrets. society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > guide, scout, etc. c1440 (?a1400) l. 3117 Thane ischewis owt of þat cete..discouerours, skyftes theire horses. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 244 The discurrouris [1489 Adv. discourrouris] saw thame cumande With baneris to the vynd vafand. 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil i. viii. 124 And with discuriouris, kepe the coist on raw. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach iv. f. 175v They [sc. bees] send abroade their discouerers to finde out more foode. 1600 W. Shakespeare iv. i. 3 Here..send discouerers forth, To know the numbers of our enemies. View more context for this quotation 1625 R. Montagu 320 A field of Thistles seemed once a battell of Pikes unto some Discoverers of the Duke of Burgundy. 1660 G. H. tr. M. de Vaumorière i. ii. 85 He..sent Discoverers into all places where his Princesse could be imagined to have past. 1763 tr. A. Le Page du Pratz II. ii. ii. 224 It is proper to say a word concerning my discoverers, or scouts. I had always three of them out, one a-head, and one on each hand of me. society > leisure > sport > judging or umpiring > [noun] > umpire or referee c1450 (a1400) (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 926 (MED) Taborus and trompours, Herawdes, goode descouerou [r] s, Har strokes gon descrye. 1548 f. xij Not onely..to see..their manly feates..but also to be the discouerer and indifferente iudge..of their couragious actes. the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > [noun] > one who finds out the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [noun] > one who finds or discovers 1576 H. Gilbert vii. sig. Fiijv This Frier..was the greatest Discouerer by sea, that hath bene in our age. 1596 W. Warner (rev. ed.) xi. lxiii. 273 Caboto (whose Cosmographie and selfe-proofe brake the Ise To most our late Discouerers). 1637 J. Taylor sig. B3v Donzago..was the first discoverer of this Castilian Ellixar [sc. sack]. 1661 W. Howell i. ii. iii. 383 What the discoverers of America relate concerning men of such stature. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in (new ed.) 409 Foreign isles which our discoverers find. 1782 Nov. 438 He, who, as the discoverer, has the best right to give it a name, wishes it to be called the Georgium Sidus. 1819 W. T. Brande v. 274 A precipitate of a fine apple-green colour..called from its discoverer, Scheele's green. 1855 T. B. Macaulay IV. 691 He was not..the first great discoverer whom princes and statesmen had regarded as a dreamer. 1922 4 Nov. 10/5 Mr. Strachey as a discoverer and appreciator of aesthetic qualities is beguiling and sensitive and distinguished. 1992 S. P. Maran 128/1 The comet was named after Encke; it is one of the relatively few comets not named for its discoverer. 2010 6 Mar. 4/1 The name ‘copernicium’ was suggested last year by the element's discoverers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1400 |
