accentuatorn.

1800 R. Bisset Douglas II. ii. 98 That acute accent which distinguishes the Caledonians of Buchan, and Strathbogie from the grave accentuators of the west and north, and the circumflex pronouncers of the Highlands of Perthshire.

1821 Monthly Repository Theol. & Gen. Lit. 16 582/2 Of the different operators through whose hands a codex necessarily passed—the consonant writer—the pointer and accentuator—the revisor—the writer of the Masora.

1876 J. Martin tr. C. F. Keil Comm. Ezek. xxvi. 19–21 I. 382 We should then have to take the clause as independent and affirmative, as the accentuators and the Targum have done.

1878 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 337/1 They [sc. Frenchwomen] are worthy to be counted as active colleagues of talk, as accentuators of its effects, as fortifiers of its arguments.

1908 Bk. Buyer Feb. 9/1 He began with the accents, not because they were of greater interest or value to the Hebrew expositor, but because historically the accentuators preceded and prepared the way for the later theorists and grammarians.

1978 Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 29 139 This last example shows that the accentuator allows oxytones within the sentence.

1994 Language 70 6 The tradition of reading the Bible with a tune is evidently very ancient... Music for its own sake, however, was not a central preoccupation of the accentuators.

?1845 T. Simpson (title) Music. Accentuation versus time. A disquisitory essay on..the information necessary to make..good timeists..by the introduction of the norma virium, or musical accentuator.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 470/1 Simpson, Thomas, Sea-Lion Hotel, Hanley-in-the-Potteries—Inventor. Norma virium, or musical accentuator, intended to supersede the metronome. It marks the first note in every bar, loud and distinct, in all measures of time; and gives in weaker beats the sectional divisions.

1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus vi. 74 A selection from his less important discoveries in the science of cosmetics; namely, an ‘eyebrow accentuator’,..and one of his most expensive chevelures.

1915 F. G. Tuttle Awakening of Woman vii. 157 All the prisons and pillories of the past, great accentuators of evil, have not sufficed to hold man down.

1923 Daily Mail 10 Jan. 2 (advt.) Auteola Player Piano... Automatic Accentuator and Sustaining Pedal.

1968 W. J. Lederer & D. D. Jackson Mirage of Marriage 115 In past ages, makeup, breast accentuators, and the like were worn mainly by the ruling classes.

1998 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (Nexis) 8 Nov. 3 g I can tell you I felt a sense of awe out there looking at the Earth that I never had before, and it's easy to relate that to a spiritual kind of thing. It's almost natural... It's really an accentuator.

2005 J. McDonough Big Bosoms & Square Jaws (2006) iv. 85 Paulette Firestone is a cheerful Australian whose genius lies in making industrial-strength uplift sexy via such contraptions as ‘the Accentuator’.