presentor
(prɪˈzɛntə(r))
[Early mod.E. presentour, a. AF. presentour = F. présenteur, agent-n. f. présenter to present: see -or.]
† 1. a. One who makes a presentment: = presenter 2. Obs.
| [c 1340 Modus tenendi Curias in Court Baron (Selden Soc. 1891) 97 Ore doit le seneschal fere elire xij. fraunkes tenauntz..qe puissent oier le presentement de presentour sil facent nul conseylement.] |
| 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 10 The stewarde with two of the presentours shall assesse..suche amerciament to them shall seeme reasonable. 1592 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. xv. 277 Thone halfe [of the fine] to the comon chamber, and thother halfe to the presentor. 1614 Selden Titles Hon. 270 Ouer euery Hundred is written (before the Iurors) Alder. Iuratorum with a name prefixt, then Electores Iuratorum with two names, and next the Presentors. |
b. One who presents to a benefice:
= presenter 1.
rare.
| 1865 Nichols Britton II. 193 If..the presentor pending the presentation dies [orig. iv. iv. §13 Si..pendaunt le presentement, moerge le presentour]. 1904 A. F. Pollard Cranmer vii. 195 The sale of benefices was to be punished by deprivation of the presentee, and by forfeiture of the presentor's patronage. |
2. = presentoir (? misprint).
| 1882 Pall Mall G. 28 June 10/1 A silver-gilt presentor, formed as an infant Bacchus on a barrel, 9½ in. high, 290 guineas. |