scryer
(ˈskraɪə(r))
Also 6 scrier, 6, 7, 9 skryer.
[f. scry v. + -er1.]
One who ‘scries’; a crystal-gazer.
| 1549 in Narr. Reform. (Camden) 334 Thomas Malfrey..and a woman..are scryers of the glasse. 1555 Eden Decades (Arb.) 319 The scrier which decerneth the veine of the myne goth before the workemen. a 1608 Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 91 He..willed me to use John my Boy as my Skryer. 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 244 Kelley was several times..false to Dee, yet he mostly performed the office of Skryer. 1889 Proc. Soc. Psych. Research xiv. 495 Dee's..scryer or seer, Kelly. 1900 Edin. Rev. Jan. 36 The profession of skryer, crystal-gazer, or speculator. |