preparer
(prɪˈpɛərə(r))
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which prepares.
| 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. Luke iii. 32 b, I am no more but a preparer of you to a baptisme of more efficacie and vertue. 1636 Prynne Remonstr. agst. Shipmoney 11 The King hath not before this time given no wages to the said Preparers, or Counties, nor Souldiers whom they have brought. 1738 Warburton Div. Legat. II. ii. App. 28 The Preparer of the Way to pure Pagan Philosophy. a 1890 J. Brown Serm. (1892) 100 For that day of wrath, that day of hope there was to come a preparer. |
b. spec. One who prepares, dresses, or makes up (food, medicine, manufactured articles, etc.): see prepare v. 5–7.
| 1553 Primer in Liturgies Edw. VI (Parker Soc.) 377 In thy faithful prayers remember Thomas Cottesforde the preparer of this preparative. a 1639 Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vii. (1677) 525 The preparers of the poison..confessed every thing. 1753 Act 26 Geo. II, c. 20 §2 The Growers, Preparers and Spinners of such Flax. 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 441 Cloth and stuff-makers, cloth-shearers and preparers. 1891 Labour Commission Gloss., Preparers, persons employed at the drawing and roving frames in preparing the wool previous to spinning: term used locally at Leicester. |
2. A thing used for preparing; † spec. a medicine administered preliminarily to a course of treatment (= preparative B. 1 b).
| 1610 Markham Masterp. i. xciii. 182 Preparatiues or preparers of the body to entertaine more stronger medicines. 1632 tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 60 Preparers... Wormwood and Apples. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 157 Rape and Cole-Seed..'Tis a very good Preparer of Land for Barley or Wheat. |