regarder
(rɪˈgɑːdə(r))
Also 6 -or.
[f. regard v. + -er1, in early use after AF. regardour, med.L. reg(u)ardor and regardator.]
1. An officer charged with the supervision of a forest. Now only local and Hist.
| [1217: see regard n. 3. ? 1278 in Stat. Realm (1810) I. 244/2 Licitum est ei..habere..tot porcos quot boscus per visum forestariorum & viridariorum Regardatorum agistatorum & aliorum proborum hominum possit pati [etc.]. 1312 Rolls of Parlt. I. 283/1 Que les Forestiers..presentent meismes les trespas as precheins Swanimotz devaunt Forestiers, Verdiers, Regardours, Agistours, & autres Ministres de meismes les Forestes.] |
| 1502 Arnolde Chron. (1811) 210 Noo forestir..make any gaderyng, but be the sight and othe of xij. regarders whan they make regard. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 28 b, The kepars, regarders, goysters, and other offycers of suche forest and chases. 1594 Crompton Jurisd. 169 If a man be indited of Trespasse done in the forrest before verdors, regardors, agistors, and other Ministers of the Forrest [etc.]. 1615 J. Manwood Lawes Forest (ed. 2) xxi. §3. 193 b, It seemeth that at that time [Hen. II] no man was called to the place of a Regarder but he that was a Knight. 1667–8 Act 19 & 20 Chas. II, c. 8 §5 New Elections shall be made..of all Verderors, Reguarders and other Officers of and for the Governing of the said Forrest [of Dean]. 1796 Sporting Mag. VIII. 164 Mr. Renshaw, one of the regarders of the New Forest. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 175/1 The verderers and regarders are chosen by the freeholders of Hampshire. Ibid. The regarders..attend the marking of all trees to be felled, value the timber for sale [etc.]. 1865 Morn. Star 13 Apr., The Crown has neglected to appoint a warden, forester, regarder, and verderer of the said [Epping] forest. 1882 Spectator 18 Feb. 227/1 If you extinguish the regarder, you extinguish with it the regard. |
2. One who or that which regards;
† a spectator.
| 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. lxii. [lxv.] 209 Al theyr feats were nobly accomplysshed, to the grete pleasure of all the lordes and ladyes and other regarders. 1542 Recorde Gr. Artes Pref. a ij b, Where so fewe regarders of learnynge are, howe greately they are to bee estemed that dooth fauour and further it. 1598 Florio, Riguardatore,..a regarder. 1630 S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. i. liii. (1670) 190 Where there is neither Judge nor Controller, nor regarder. 1682 Southerne Loyal Brother i. i, Thou kind regarder of my Fame. 1804 Collins Scripscrap 97 Old Reynard kept a Larder, Of neighbours' wants a kind regarder. |