representern.

Brit.

/ˌrɛprᵻˈzɛntə/, U.S.

/ˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ər/,

/ˌrɛpriˈzɛn(t)ər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: represent v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < represent v.¹ + -er suffix¹, partly after Middle French representeur person who represents (14th cent.), person who presents (1476), actor, comedian (1578; French représenteur).

I. Senses relating to representation.

a. Something which stands for, signifies, or denotes another; an image, a sign, a symbol.

ΚΠ

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. ccxxxv^v 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 ϕ_i is the representer of the point functional f(z_i).

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.

ΘΚΠ

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

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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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

†a. A person who represents by acting; a person who performs, plays, or impersonates; an actor. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

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.

†3. A person who explains something; an expounder. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains

expositora1340

expounitourc1380

undoer1382

expoundera1425

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explainer1579

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explicator1611

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representer1642

dilucidator1689

unravellera1704

elucidator1715

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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.

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).

ΘΚΠ

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).

ΚΠ

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.

†II. Senses relating to presentation.

5. A person who presents something as an offering; a giver. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

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).

单词	representer
释义	representern. Brit. /ˌrɛprᵻˈzɛntə/, U.S. /ˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ər/, /ˌrɛpriˈzɛn(t)ər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: represent v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < represent v.¹ + -er suffix¹, partly after Middle French representeur person who represents (14th cent.), person who presents (1476), actor, comedian (1578; French représenteur). I. Senses relating to representation. 1. a. Something which stands for, signifies, or denotes another; an image, a sign, a symbol. ΚΠ 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. ccxxxv^v 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 ϕ_i is the representer of the point functional f(z_i). 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. †3. A person who explains something; an expounder. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 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. †II. Senses relating to presentation. 5. A person who presents something as an offering; a giver. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1449
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