setter-forth
[See set v.1 144.]
One who sets forth (in various senses); one who promulgates an opinion, who equips an expedition, etc.
| 1451 Rolls of Parlt. V. 225/1 Noon owner, Vitailler, nor setter-forth of eny Shippe or Vessell. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 5 marg., Mecænas was..so great a fauourer, promouter, and setter fourthe of Virgil, Horace, & suche other learned menne, that [etc.]. 1611 Bible Acts xvii. 18 He seemeth to be a setter foorth of strange gods. 1616 Capt. Smith Descr. New Eng. 48, I was beholden to the setters forth of the foure ships that went with Cooper. a 1700 Evelyn Diary Aug. 1641 (1879) I. 22 Mr. Bleaw, the setter forth of the Atlas's and other workes of that kind. 1721 Strype Eccl. Mem. III. xl. 319 Sebastian Cabota..was the chief Setterforth of the first Voyage into those Parts. 1840 Browning Sordello i. 26 Your setters-forth of unexampled themes. |