setter-forthn.
One who sets forth (in various senses); one who promulgates an opinion, who equips an expedition, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > one who equips a ship
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > patronage > [noun] > patron
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benefactor1532
patronizer1596
favourer1625
patroona1641
good fairy1716
fairy godfather1847
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tall relative1976
the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > a believer
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believer?a1425
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > [noun] > holder of opinion
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1451 Rolls of Parl. V. 225/1 Noon owner, Vitailler, nor setter-forth of eny Shippe or Vessell.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes 5 (margin) Mecænas was..so great a fauourer, promouter, and setter fourthe of Virgil, Horace, & suche other learned menne, that [etc.].
1611 Bible (King James) Acts xvii. 18 He seemeth to be a setter foorth of strange gods. View more context for this quotation
1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 48 I was beholden to the setters forth of the foure ships that went with Cooper.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 49 Mr. Bleaw, the setter-forth of the Atlas's & other Workes of that kind.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials III. xl. 319 Sebastian Cabota..was the chief Setterforth of the first Voyage into those Parts.
1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 26 Your setters-forth of unexampled themes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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