tamperern.
/ˈtampərə/ One who tampers; a schemer; a meddler.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > plotter
compassera1513
engineer?a1513
hafter1519
contrivera1522
deviser1523
intrycarc1540
practiser1545
practisant1550
practitioner1560
brewer1563
platformer1572
hatcher1578
politician1586
plotter1594
tamperer1599
plotcaster1602
machinator1611
plot-maker1641
trinketer1651
intriguer1667
plot-monger1683
schemist1724
under-plotter1728
intriguant1781
policizer1809
intriguist1830
schemer1846
planster1945
wheeler-dealer1960
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > interference or meddling > improperly or tampering > one who
tamperer1599
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 88 Yea there are not wanting some temperers among them, that have beene talking a long while..of a Generall solemne Conference.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel Pref. p. xciii Unfaithful Tamperers with the Souls of men.
1854 C. Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. III. xxxii. 157 He..was surrounded in the Tower by tamperers and traitors.
1906 Athenæum 3 Feb. 131/3 Modern tamperers with the ecclesiastical architecture.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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