trystern.
/ˈtrʌɪstə/ One who trysts: (a) ‘a person who convenes others,..fixing the time and place of meeting’ (Jamieson); (b) one who appoints to meet another; (c) one who attends a tryst or appointed meeting.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > one who is involved in making
treater1489
covenant-man1540
obligatora1625
covenanter1643
covenantee1649
declarer1649
convener1650
tryster1655
contractor1724
conventionist1768
circumscriber1776
declarationist1892
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > one who participates in
parlant1586
collator1628
tryster1655
conferee1846
symposiast1878
Round Tabler1887
Congressist1888
conferencier1926
Sherpa1959
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > appointed > one who convenes
tryster1655
1655 R. Baillie Let. 1 Dec. (1842) III. 279 We had drawne up ane overture,..according to the Assemblie's late overture for union, and by the hands of the trysters..sent it into their meeting.
1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song Introd. 21 The old cottars (the trysters of other years) are mostly dead in good old age.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. ix. 182 The expected trysters, did not appear.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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