variern.
/ˈvɛːrɪə/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches > in universities
orator1592
prevaricator1615
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terrae filius1651
variator1749
1615 J. Chamberlain Let. 15 Mar. (1939) I. ccxxv. 587 The bishop of Ely sent the moderator, the auswerer, the varier or prævaricator, and one of the repliers, that were all of his house twenty angells a-peece.
1665 J. Buck in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. B. p. lxxxii The Proctor calleth up the Varier or Prævaricator, who, having ended his speech, is dismist by the Proctor.
1955 Renaissance News 8 179 The varier or prevaricator was an official humorist introduced into the disputation at Cambridge immediately after the pater academicus had presented his protégé.
2. One who varies or dissents from something.
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [noun] > one who > from something
varier1860
1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 19 They gain'd a coast..At close of day; slept, woke, and went the next, The Sabbath, pious variers from the church, To chapel.
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