representern.
/ˌrɛprᵻˈzɛntə/, U.S. /ˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ər/, /ˌrɛpriˈzɛn(t)ər/ I. Senses relating to representation.† 3. A person who explains something; an expounder. Obsolete.
1.
a. Something which stands for, signifies, or denotes another; an image, a sign, a symbol.
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c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 219 (MED) Thre condiciouns muste be had in a thing, that he be a perfit and a ful and a spedy ymage or representer or remembrer of another thing.
1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull xiii. f. ccxxxvv Make no more of an Image, but onelye take it as a representer to signifye, and to put you in remembraunce of the thinge that it is made after.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1246/1 As touchyng Images,..that they be representers of vertue & good example.
1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. i. iii. 58 Man.., if not as a resembler, yet as a representer of the Macrocosme or Great World, [etc.].
1674 T. Jordan in W. Herbert Hist. Twelve Livery Companies London (1836) 221 On a very large Pageant, is a very rich Seat of State, containing the Representer of the Patron to the Goldsmiths' Company, Saint Dunstan.
1691 E. Taylor in J. Böhme's Theosophick Philos. 113 Their greatest sin was their leaving the Divine Substance of the second Principle, and going into the Out birth or third Principle; which is only a shadow, figure, image, or representer of the Substance.
1840 J. Bellenden Ker Ess. Archæol. Nursery Rhymes 181 H is the natural representer of warmth, heat, from the effect of continued issue of the breath produced in pronouncing it.
1967 SIAM 4 536 Φ is the representer of the integration functional L, and ϕi is the representer of the point functional f(zi).
1994 A. Plotnitsky tr. J. Derrida in A. Plotnitsky Complementarity i. ii. 49 There is no phenomenality reducing the sign or the representer so that the thing signified may be allowed to glow finally in the luminosity of its presence.
b. A representative of a person, group, country, etc.; a spokesperson, a deputy.In quot. 1605: a person who prefigures another.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > representative
representera1586
representator1603
representanta1641
mandatory1648
representative1649
alter egoa1695
rep1848
society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun] > one who or that which
common person1535
figurer1548
representor1553
representera1586
representator1603
representative1638
embodier1654
butt-cut1830
thinger1883
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Pp4 I am but the representer of all the late florishing Arcadia.
1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 166 This representer and foreshewer of Christs euerlasting priesthood.
1691 R. Baxter Of National Churches viii. 31 His Honour as Gods chief Officer, and in a sort representer.
1731 A. Hill Athelwold iv. 47 He should have come, his own Ambassador, That sent a Representer, such as I am; Unqualified to smooth your angry Brow.
1757 E. Perronet Mitre (new ed.) iii. x. 142 Grand representer of his race: That lost for all the common Grace, And all in him are dead!
1841 J. Burke & J. B. Burke Geneal. & Heraldic Hist. Extinct & Dormant Baroneticise (ed. 2) 629/1 The above-mentioned Andrew Kinloch..came to be heir-male and representer of the family of Kinlock and Cruvie.
1848 Newchurchman-extra 439 Those table of Jehovah's own making..which Moses, as the representer of the jewish [sic] nation, had to break.
1986 T. J. Watson Managem. Organization & Employm. Strategy vi. 189 The idea of the professional association..as a representer of the interests of its members.
2004 Daily Tel. 20 Apr. 23/2 As 23rd representer of the baronial house of Dowhill, he was head of the Dowhill branch of the Lindsays.
c. spec. = representative n. 1. archaic and rare in later use.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > representative > of a number of persons in a special capacity
representor1553
representative1635
representanta1641
representee1648
representer1648
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > a representative assembly > member of
representor1553
deputy1600
representative1635
representee1648
representer1648
representant1831
1648 J. Rushworth Abridgment of Remonstr. of Army 5 They have a Parliament consisting of Deputyes or Representers freelly chosen and with as much equality as may be.
1652 Observ. Forms Govt. Pref. 6 The people have not the power of choosing Representers to govern, if Governours must be sent of God.
1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (new ed.) 24 It is to be confessed, that the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses there assembled, are the Representers of the People of England.
1707 D. Defoe Sc. Poem 1 Now are our Noble Representers met; And boldly in their August places set. They carefully do treat the grand Affairs.
1733 J. Swift Epist. to Lady 9 When my Muse officious ventures On the Nation's Representers.
1788 G. Eunson Anc. & Present State Orkney 75 They, or their friends, were always elected the representers of this country and the burgh, in parliament.
1812 Monthly Mag. June 482/1 If the House does not truly represent independent bodies of electors in the just sense of representer and represented, it ceases to answer its constitutional purposes.
2003 D. Pels in J. Corner & D. Pels Media & Restyling of Polit. iii. 49 Political reality and political power only emerge in the ‘hollow’ or the ‘gap’ between representer and represented, state and citizen.
2. † a. A person who represents by acting; a person who performs, plays, or impersonates; an actor. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun]
playera1400
game-player1533
comedy player1550
stage-player1561
actor1566
histrion?1566
comediant1568
representer1579
stager1580
presentera1586
histrio1589
stageman1589
gamester1596
player-man1596
Roscius1600
stagerite1602
theaterian1602
comedian1603
scenic1612
representant1622
play-actor1633
parta1643
histrionic1647
representator1653
artist1714
mummer1773
actor-manager1826
Thespian1827
impersonator1830
personifier1835
player-manager1895
thesp1962
luvvie1988
1579 J. Frampton tr. B. de Escalante Disc. Nauigation f. 23 They haue musitions in all these bankets and players vpon diuers Instrumentes, dauncers and representers of comedies.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Representador A representer, a plaier of comedies, actor.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xvi. 80 Any Representer of speech and action, as well in Tribunalls, as Theaters.
1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Ccc1 Though they plainly saw not the madnesse of Ajax, but of the representer acted.
1787 J. Whitaker Mary Queen of Scots Vindicated I. v. 339 Such was the coarse kirtle and the homely neckatee, in which these wretched representers of Mary dressed themselves up, for the exhibition of a Queen.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters iv. 100 Theatrical conceit was never better impersonated than by the great representer of Pyramus.
1893 J. H. Cornell tr. A. W. Ambros Boundaries of Music & Poetry 73 It is greatly to be doubted that a representer of Puck was at his [sc. Shakespeare's] disposal, to fly, at his departure, ‘swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow’.
b. gen. A person who or thing which depicts, portrays, or renders something perceptible to the senses.
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society > communication > manifestation > [noun] > one who or that which manifests
openerOE
showerc1400
manifesterc1429
representor1553
outsettera1578
manifestator1609
displayer1611
representer1635
manifesteress1662
developer1772
exhibitant1846
elicitor1848
society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun] > exhibitor
representer1635
exhibiter1836
exhibitioner1840
exhibitor1845
1635 J. Rutter Shepheards Holy-day This Mirror here, the faithfuli representer Of that which I adore, your beautious forme.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. ix. 36 Painters who are the visible representers of things..are not inculpable herein. View more context for this quotation
1704 T. Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 129 Thucydides is the best Representer of mov'd affections, Herodotus of Calm.
1808 O. Gilchrist Exam. Charges 33 Ben [Jonson] was professedly a representer of men and manners.
1864 N. Brit. Rev. Feb. 125/1 He is not to be judged only by his novels as a representer of character, he must be judged also..as a describer and analyzer of character.
1991 H. Adams in A. C. Purves Idea Diffic. in Lit. i. ii. 43 What if language..operates not so much as a representer of a world out there as a form in which we try to constitute our experience?
2005 D. D. Choudhuri in M. G. Constantine & D. W. Sue Strateg. for Building Multicultural Competence iv. xvi. 279 The postmodernist stance claims that all representations..are embedded in the language, culture, institutions, and political environment of the representer.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains
expositora1340
expounitourc1380
undoer1382
expoundera1425
reader1440
declarera1527
looser1528
explainer1579
exponer1588
illustrator1598
clearer1599
explicator1611
unfolder1611
representer1642
dilucidator1689
unravellera1704
elucidator1715
exponent1812
explanator1858
transfuser1889
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica To Rdr. 7/1 I would be so understood, as a Representer of the Wisdome of the Ancients rather then a warranter of the same.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xi. 173 Lawyers..are equally, the..Representers and Misrepresenters, Explainers and Confounders of our Laws.
1818 T. H. Horne Introd. Crit. Study Holy Script. II. iii. i. 313 He should be regarded as a faithful representer of the divine revelations, for the purpose of information and instruction.
4.
a. A person who puts forward a statement or account, esp. with a view to influencing action or to creating a particular impression of a matter; (in later use) (Law) (a) a person who makes a statement which forms the basis of a contract (cf. representor n. 3); (b) a complainant, a petitioner (now rare).
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the mind > language > statement > [noun] > one who > in a certain light
representer1647
1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική Ep. Ded. 35 It is farre more unlikely that after Ages should know any other truth, but such as serves the ends of the representers.
1686 W. Sherlock Papist not Misrepresented 25 It is somewhat strange, they should be all true Representers, especially in those points, wherein they contradict each other.
1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients xlix. 116 The Representers have not only an interest in Falshood, but likewise an Art to make it pass for Truth.
1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. v. 440 One singular Circumstance in Favour of the Character of the Representers.
1789 A. Furnival Let. 1 June in G. Washington Papers (1987) Presidential Ser. II. 426 Your Representer begs leave to Observe, that his pay as an officer being inadequate to the support of his Family; was induced to Venture considerable property at Sea.
1840 5th Rep. Criminal Law 123 How far that table would remedy the evil of which the representer complains, he does not know.
1859 E. Storie Autobiogr. 96 The Representer had already done everything in her power with the Kirk-Session to get redress.
1950 Law & Comtemp. Probl. 15 407 If the representer later discovers his representation of fact is no longer true..and if this is not communicated to the other party, the latter is induced by a misrepresentation at the time of contract closing.
2001 K. Owens Law for Non-law Students (ed. 3) x. 229 Damages available..in respect of a wholly innocent misrepresentation (that is, a mis-statement which the representer had reasonable grounds to believe was true) are restricted.
b. Church History. In plural. The authors of the Representation presented to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland in 1721 in connection with the Marrow Controversy (see marrow n.1 4c).
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1722 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 644 The second part of the Marrow was published on Saturday, with a long preface and appendix, which is confidence enough in the Representers.
a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) viii. 169 The same very worthy man, many years after, joined not with the representers in the affair of the Marrow..but was obliged to declare himself in favour of truth.
1848 A. Thomson Hist. Secession Ch. 24 Meanwhile, the Representers are summoned to appear before the Commission.
1877 J. M. Ross Globe Encycl. IV. 210/1 A somewhat modified Act was passed in 1722, against which the Representers also protested.
2001 A. Skoczylas Mr. Simson's Knotty Case iv. xii. 323 He was eventually forced to make a stand in favour of the Marrow Representers, whereupon his opponents stopped his trial.
5. A person who presents something as an offering; a giver. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > giver > one who presents
presenterc1443
representer1483
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 307 b/1 They ben our kepars, oure mynystres.., the berers of our sowles in to heuen and representers of our prayers vnto god.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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