relatern.

1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) ii. v. 35 The other, which doeth but prosecute or sollicite in some part of the suite; as by furnishing the Court with proofes, &c. which is called Officium mixtum, in some temporall courtes, a Relater.

1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques v. v. 280 Whosoeuer did charge the relater or reporter [Fr. le relateur] thereof, that he had therein done against the lawes..should be greeuously punished.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. viii. 334 The Amazons are still on[e] Nation further then the relaters or their authors haue trauelled.

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 60 The divine relater shews us not the least signe of disliking what was done.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. x. 196 This is not founded upon Supposition..of a formed Design in the Relater to deceive.

1740 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 389 It may easily be concluded that the Relaters did not diminish the Merit of their Attempts.

1818 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) II. xxiv. 384 The relater declares that he had heard it with his ears, and seen it with his eyes.

1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (xliii. 19–25) 540 The relater is prone to lump matters in the narration.

1932 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 52 264 How is the activity of these writers and relaters of Maghāzī-fiction related to that of the earlier Ḳuṣṣāṣ?

1996 S. Mootoo Cereus blooms at Night i. 3 Might I add that my own intention, as the relater of this story, is not to bring notice to myself or my own plight.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 437 Such were continually preferred and countenanced, as were Friends, or Favourers, or Relaters [1888 related] to the chief Authors and Actors of that Arbitrary Power.