construer
(ˈkɒnstruːə(r), kənˈstruːə(r))
Also 5 construare, -stirrere, 7– sterer.
[f. construe v. + -er1.]
One who construes.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 91 Construare, constructor. 1483 Cath. Angl., A constirrere, expositor, constructor. 1607 S. Collins Serm. (1608) 67 Detorted and wrested another way..as is the humor of the Consterer. 1612 Brinsley Lud. Lit. 112 Where the construer sticketh, or goeth amisse, to call him backe to the rule. 1656 Hobbes Six Less. Wks. 1845 VII. 200 Which definition..to a candid construer, is sound. |