residenter
(ˈrɛzɪdɛntə(r), Sc. rɛzɪˈdɛntə(r))
Also 5 resedenter, 7 recidentor.
[f. resident.]
† 1. Eccl. A residentiary. Obs. rare.
| 1455 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 191 Sir John Bernyngham, tresorer of York mynster, and Maister John Marsshall, resedenter of the same mynster. 1719 Brit. Compend. (ed. 2) 239 The present Dean, and Residenter of St. Paul's. |
2. Sc. and
U.S. A resident, inhabitant.
old residenter, a pioneer in the
U.S.| 1678 Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. ii. viii. §i, The Justice-deputs were not ordinar Residenters in Town. 1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II, c. 43 §3 The inhabitants and residenters within the same. 1765 Phil. Trans. LV. 194 The total of residenters..being 15,734. 1812 Brackenridge Views Louisiana (1814) 127 They were ceded by the Spanish government, as an appendage to the possession of every residenter in the village. 1827 Western Monthly Rev. I. 70 Hence arose a feud and a collision of authorities between the old and the new ‘residenters’. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 221 The obligations incumbent on him as a residenter of the parish. 1875 W. M{supc}Ilwraith Guide Wigtown. 57 In the memory of some not very aged residenters. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 82 Residenter, sb. an old inhabitant. 1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum 253, I ain't what ye might call an old residenter. 1967 Buchan Observer 5 Sept. 7 Residenters..are becoming greatly concerned. 1975 New Yorker 29 Dec. 36/3 Well, here's an old guy in the audience—an old residenter, that's what they called them—with a long grey beard. |
| transf. 1882 Chamb. Jrnl. XIX. 89 Nor did the birds come merely as stray visitors, but as actual residenters. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxii. 212 Such residenters are attracted..by the influx of sparrows, rats, and mice. 1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 130 Residenter, any old tractor still used over the road. |