† deˈcisor, -er Obs.
[a. med.L. dēcīsor, agent-n. from dēcīdĕre to decide.]
One who decides causes or controversies: a decider, arbiter.
| 1563 Foxe A. & M. 68 b, Thys King [Hen. II], to whom other Princes dyd so resort, as to their arbitrer and deciser. 1564 Haward Eutropius i. 9 Two whome they called Tribuni plebis..to be peculier decisers and determiners of their causes. 1888 B. Pick in Libr. Mag. Mar. 245 They were called Saboraim, ‘Decisors’, ‘Opinionists’. |