promissor
(prəʊˈmɪsə(r))
[a. L. prōmissor a promiser, agent-n. f. prōmitt-ĕre: see promit v.]
† 1. Astrol. = promittor. Obs.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. i. iv, If {saturn} by his revolution, or transitus, shall offend any of those radicall promissors in the geniture. Ibid. iii. iii. i. ii. (1651) 596 By direction of the significators to their several promissors. 1696 Phillips (ed. 5), Promitters or Promissors, a Term in the Genethliack part of Astrology, so called because they promise in the Radix something to be accomplished, when the Time of direction is fulfilled. |
2. Rom. Law, etc. One who makes a promise: = promisor.
| 1644 [H. Parker] Jus Pop. 12 This wide gaping promissor. 1859 Sandars Instit. Justinian iii. xv. (ed. 2) 423 If the promissor attempted to defeat the condition by preventing its being fulfilled, he was treated as if he had promised pure, and the thing could be demanded from him at once. 1875 Poste tr. Gaius i. Introd. (ed. 2) 11 The intention of the promissor must accord with that of the promissee. Ibid. iii. Comm. 362 A unilateral convention is one where there is a single promissor and a single acceptor. |