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delayer Now rare.|dɪˈleɪə(r)|
[f. delay v.1 + -er1. Cf. OF. delayeur, dilayeur.]
One who (or that which) delays.
1. One who lingers or tarries; one who puts off doing something, a procrastinator.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xxiv, Called..Fabius Cunctator, that is to saye the tariar or delayer. 1653Holcroft Procopius iii. 81 Being no Souldier, a coward, and an extream delayer. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 92 To quicken the delayer in his resolutions. 1890Blackw. Mag. CXLVII. 267 The dear delayers Whose part is over, but they do not go.
†b. with inf. One who delays to do something. Obs. rare.
1640–1Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 93 Refuisers or delayers to mak peyment. 1653Baxter Chr. Concord xix. B ij b, Delayers or deniers to consent to the matter.
2. (With obj. genitive.) One who (or that which) retards or hinders; one who puts off or defers.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 32 Cratchers of coyne, delayers of processe. 1642Rogers Naaman 26 The furtherer or delayer of his owne grace. a1745Swift Char. Hen. II, Wks. 1824 X. 391 A delayer of justice. 1888Pall Mall G. 16 Jan. 6/1 He was a Yankee inventor. He had patented early-rising machines, burglar delayers..and..other curious appliances. |