scandalizer
(ˈskændəlaɪzə(r))
[f. scandalize v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who slanders; a libeller.
| 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix. 409 A damnable scandalizer of the Church. 1680 J. Phillips Dr. Oates's Narrat. Vind. 52 The Scandalizer of the Presbyterians, and the Vindicator of the English Catholicks. 1865 Cornh. Mag. Nov. 484 The assembled fathers decreed that the corpse of the scandaliser of women should forthwith be exhumed. |
2. One who places a moral stumbling-block in the way of another. ? Obs.
| 1680 Baxter Cath. Commun. i. xi. (1684) 28 Even those little ones of whose scandalizers and neglecters Christ spake so terribly, were none of them without some Sin. |