requestern.

1564 Abp. M. Parker Let. 14 Apr. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 209 Doubtful it is to me by what authority these requesters do exercise their conference.

1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 406 The requester is oftentimes superiour to him whose prayers hee desireth.

1647 R. Herrick Gods Gifts not soone Granted in Noble Numbers 7 Though a while He makes Requesters stay, With princely hand He'l recompence delay.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xvi. 126 Thus..can he..send away a requester so much delighted with him, as to forget what her request was.

1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. ii. 162 ‘I rather fancy, sir,’ cried the gentleman,..surveying the requester with supercilious contempt; ‘I rather suspect they would not perfectly fit you’.

1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. x. 110 A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request. View more context for this quotation

1868 S. Smith Theatr. Managem. in West & South 251/2 The list of requesters was easily filled up, for the people all liked the young man.

1928 Musical Times 69 718/1 In this matter, as in most others, the noisy grousers and ‘requesters’ as a rule represent only a small proportion of folk.

1996 Wired May 101/3 An anonymizer, acting as an intermediary between the browser and a given URL, resends the request from its own location and then directs the result back to the original requester.