addressorn.

1658 G. Wharton Second Narr. Late Parl. 26 The aforementioned Addressors, as they blasphemously and flatteringly speak in way of honouring his Father, so in the same Adresses do they speak of him, falsly and wickedly alluding to good Joshua, Solomon and Elisha.

1681 (title) A rational account how the loyal addressors maintaining the lineal descent of the crown is very consistent with their affection to the established Protestant religion.

1682 Hist. Assoc. 25 For men to be so scandalously led away by their own imprudence..as to abhor the Defence of their King and Country, is an apparent sign, that few of the Addressors ever considered what they writ or what they read.

1691 D. Defoe New Discov. Old Intreague Introd. iii. 5 With greater Gust than our Addressors sold Their Liberty for Lust.

1710 4 Lett. Friend in N. Brit. iv. 21/2 Papists or Nonjurors, Applicationers, or Addressors.

1776 J. Andrews Let. 11 Apr. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. July (1865) 411 What wood was to be got..I could not procure (not being an addressor or an associator) though I offer'd so high as fifty dollars for a chaldron.

1809 Leeds Mercury 15 July We have drawn up the following draft of an Address, and beg leave to recommend it to the adoption of all the Independent Addressors at this momentous crisis.

1831 New-Hampsh. Statesman 13 Sept. 1/4 Under these circumstances, the name of Whig, all at once, came into use, to designate the petitioners for relief; and that of Tory, to designate the addressors, who denied the public distress, and defended the conduct of the Executive.

1851 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 7 Feb. 4/6 I have assured them (the addressors) of my resolution to maintain the rights of my crown.

1907 J. H. Stark Loyalists of Mass. (1910) 235 Nathaniel Coffin was..an addressor of Hutchinson in 1774 and of Gage in 1775.

2002 D. R. Chesnutt & C. J. Taylor in H. Laurens Papers 63 Edmund..was placed on the Jacksonborough Assembly's confiscation and banishment list for being an addressor to Sir Henry Clinton.

1669 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company 134 We received after we had been before the Emperour a double allowance, which was seldom done to any other Forreign Addressors [Du. Gezanten].

1678 E. Howard Man of Newmarket v. 61 My addressors come, we'll give 'em leave a little.

1691 T. D'Urfey Bussy D'Ambois ii. iii. 16 Your second Maidenhead? Thus all your plaguy Sex will cry when courted By one you do not fancy; but if you like Your Addressor, Your Husband..wears more Horns than are in Arden Forest.

1692 E. Settle 2nd Pt. Notorious Impostor Ep. Ded. Great Names, and High Titles are always attended by a Train of Suitors and Addressors.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxi. 199 To have an heart so impenetrable—And I, the hitherto successful Lovelace, the addressor—How can it be?

1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 64 A meeting of the addressors had nominated him as their chairman.

1941 J. R. Mock Censorship, 1917 101 If the certificate was not signed by the addressor, action upon the letter was left to the discretion of the censor.

1984 Stanford Law Rev. 36 1118 An addressor is at fault—is negligent—if he uses an expression that he should realize would lead a reasonable person in the addressee's position to believe that the addressor intends a given meaning when he does not.

1994 Calif. Law Rev. 82 1128 Many contract-law problems concern the interpretation of an expression that was used by an addressor.

1897 Times 1 Feb. 4/6 The addressor..is hundreds, often thousands of miles distant from the place of delivery, yet he escapes scot free, whilst the addressee..is made the victim.

1923 Columbia Law Rev. 23 128 In the extant correspondence..the addressor in each case placed his name before that of the addressee.

1954 Mind 63 397 In such communication the addressor is or has been thinking with the symbols as he produces them, and the addressee (if the communication is successful) is thinking with the symbols which are addressed to him.

1987 Multilingua 6 280 American participants may have perceived their Soviet addressors as too personal because they did not make general claims.

2003 S. Malpas Jean-Francois Lyotard iii. 63 A phrase brings together four points each time it occurs: the ‘addressor’ who presents the phrase, the ‘addressee’ to whom the phrase is presented, the reference that the phrase is about, and the sense which is what the phrase says about the reference.