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declarer|dɪˈklɛərə(r)| [f. declare v. + -er.] 1. One who declares: †a. One who expounds, explains, or interprets. Obs.
1527R. Thorne in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 258 That I be the declarer or gloser of mine owne worke. 1530Palsgr. 212/1 Declarer, expounder, declarevr, exposevr. a1714J. Sharp Serm. VII. iv. (R.), To be the infallible declarers and interpreters of the sense of Scripture to all the Christian world. b. One who (or that which) exhibits, sets forth, or makes known; one who proclaims or publishes.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xviii. (R.), He became..an open declarer of Gods goodness. 1632State Trials, W. Prynne (R.), He is not the declarer of his intentions. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 96 Such as are His peculiar servants, and declarers of His mind and doctrine. 1870Ruskin Lect. Art iii. (1887) 89 The declarer of some true facts or sincere passions. 2. One who makes or signs a declaration.
1649C. Walker Hist. Independ. ii. 144 The Declarers play the Orators in behalfe of the felicity of Government. 1817Cobbett Pol. Reg. 8 Feb. 173 This is declaration for declaration..But, my worthy Declarers, I am not going to stop here. 3. a. One who declares at bezique.
1870Mod. Hoyle 153 (Besique) The declarer cannot declare Sequence and Royal Marriage at a blow. b. In the game of Bridge, one who declares (see declare v. 11 c).
1905in W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (1910) 13 The declarer of the trump shall have the right to say whether or not the double shall stand. 1927M. C. Work Contract Bridge iii. 55 A double which is not ‘free’ may produce for the Declarer a game otherwise unobtainable. 1965Listener 17 June 915/3 When Mrs Markus was declarer South led the two of diamonds. |