deemer
(ˈdiːmə(r))
Forms: 1 dœ́mere, 1–5 démere, 3 demare, 3–5 demer, 5– 6 demar, 5– deemer.
[OE. dœ́mere, f. dœ́man to deem: see -er1.]
One who deems.
† 1. A judge. Obs.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xii. 27 Ða dœmeras [iudices] biðon iuera. a 1225 Ancr. R. 306 Let skile sitten ase demare upon þe dom stol. 1382 Wyclif Ps. vii. 12 God riȝtwis demere [1388 iust iuge]. c 1440 York Myst. xxiii. 142 So schall bothe heuen & helle Be demers of þis dede. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 118 Demar (P. or domes man), judicator. c 1580 C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxix. V ii, Then be my causes deemer. |
2. One who deems, judges, or opines; † one who censures or (unfavourably) criticizes others.
| c 1410 Love Bonavent. Mirr. xv. 37 (Gibbs MS.) Þat þowe be not a presumptuouse and temerarye deemer of oþer men. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xviii. 42 To wirk vengeance on ane demar. 1557 Sir J. Cheke in T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer (1561) ad fin., Counted ouerstraight a deemer of thinges. 1610 P. Barrough Meth. Physick Ep. Ded. (1639) 2 Plato that most grave and wise deemer of the state tyrannical. 1854 Trench Synon. N.T. xi. 44 Our profound English proverb, ‘Ill doers are ill deemers’. |
† b. One that distinguishes or discriminates. Obs.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 29 Ne þe skyn of þe fyngris endis..ne schulde nouȝt be a good demere in knowynge hoot, cold [etc.]. 1548–77 Vicary Anat. ii. (1888) 23 The Skinne..is made temperate, because he should be a good deemer of heate from colde. |