introˈductor arch.
[a. late L. intrōductor, agent-n. from intrōdūcĕre to introduce: cf. F. introducteur (16th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
One who or that which introduces; an introducer.
| 1638 Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II.) 221, I should not be his worst introductor. 1655 Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 3/1 Institutor of the Magi, and Introductor of the Chaldaick Sciences amongst the Persians. 1751 Phil. Trans. XLVII. 300, Fig. 2. The same canula improved..which I name introductor. 1852 Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales, Wayside (1879) 10 Not..that there was any real necessity for my services as introductor. |
b. One whose office it is to introduce persons at court; esp. introductor of ambassadors (F. introducteur des ambassadeurs): see quot. 1706.
| 1651 Evelyn Diary 15 Sept., We were accompanied both going and returning by y⊇ Introductor of Ambassadors and Ayd of Ceremonies. 1662 J. Davies Olearius' Voy. Ambass. v. 271 Jesaul Senhobet, who is as it were the Introductor, or Master of the Ceremonies. 1706 Phillips s.v., An Introductor of Ambassadors,..a Master of Ceremonies, that brings them to Audience in a Prince's Court. 1774 H. Swinburne in Crts. Europe Close last Cent. (1841) I. 9 About eleven, the introductors gave notice of the king's levee being ready, and so..we trudged up stairs. 1788 Gibbon Decl. & F. liii. (1846) V. 246 The introductor and interpreter of foreign ambassadors were the great Chiaous and the Dragoman. 1834 Beckford Italy II. 344 You must come with me immediately to the Infanta and Don Gabriel..I am to be your introductor. |