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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16704 Heil þou temple caster doun..And reiser [c1460 Laud reysar] vp.

a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) 1162 (MED) To þe, Ihesu, we pray, rayser till life fro ded.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Judith xiv. 9 That Holofernes schulde awake not of the reiseris [L. excitantibus].

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 244 (MED) Ye..rasars of slanderyngys, ye ar my dere darlyngys.

1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.4^v Raisseris of Rebellioun.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 47^v In no wyse to be a rayser or enhaunser of rentes.

1611 Bible (King James) Dan. xi. 20 Then shall stand vp in his estate a raiser of taxes. View more context for this quotation

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 624 The raysers of the War were scattered here and there.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry xvi. 315 A planter or raiser of trees ought to consider the under soil, as well as the superficies of the earth.

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 459 Cæsar was the author and raiser of all that storm.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose in Waverley Novels (1830) XV. ii. 21 As..the raisers of those valorous Scottish regiments that were the dread of Germany began to fall pretty thick..we, their children, succeeded to their inheritance.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Concl. 162 A raiser of huge melons and of pine.

1884 Harper's Mag. June 53/2 A disappointed raiser of church debts.

1921 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 10 Sept. 16/2 We owe this new race [of freesias] largely to Continental raisers.

1949 H. Wilcox Six Moons in Sulawesi ii. 29 In Assam, for instance, the staunch Naga tribesmen..are also head-hunters and raisers of megaliths.

1980 F. Manolson & A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Small Farmer's Guide raising Livestock & Poultry (U.S. ed.) vii. 184/1 As an alternative to bucket feeding some calf raisers prefer to let a nurse cow do the work for them.

2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. on Miracles at Little No Horse vii. 124 Such a good raiser of monies was immensely rare.

1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method i. iii. f. 7 Wee will shew..what is the vse of diuers instrumentes, that is to say, of the Trepans, of the Eductories or drawers forth, or of those which are called Eleuatories or Raisors.

1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. i. ix. 28 Of each side of the Yard, one of these Muscles is shorter and thicker than the others are, and they serve to raise the Yard and to make it stand, and are therefore called raisers or erecters.

1701 tr. D. Tauvry New Rational Anat. ii. xiii. 246 We must consider the Body is a Machine consisting of many Members. Some bones serve for supporters, and others for raisers.

1740 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. (ed. 2) Expl. Fig. v. sig. A8 The Raiser of the Scapula.

1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 135 Those platforms, raisers or blocks, are added to a carriage..to elevate and support the budget, boot, hind foot-boards and springs.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. x. ii. 170 His excited fancy, was the real and sole raiser of the spectre.

1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 121 The utility of boiled foods in the service is limited to their occasional use as condition raisers for horses which require fattening.

1972 Physics Bull. Nov. 655/2 Surface inclusions may..act as local stress raisers because they have an elastic stiffness different from that of the surrounding glass.

1996 C. Geerdes in ‘W. Tinasky’ Lett. ii. 79/2 (notes) He bought an old school bus..and hit the road to hype the psychedelic drug as a consciousness raiser.