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tamperer|ˈtæmpərə(r)| [f. tamper v.1 + -er1.] One who tampers; a schemer; a meddler.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 88 Yea there are not wanting some temperers among them, that have beene talking a long while..of a Generall solemne Conference. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. Pref. 93 Unfaithful Tamperers with the Souls of men. 1854Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. xxxii. III. 157 He..was surrounded in the Tower by tamperers and traitors. 1906Athenæum 3 Feb. 131/3 Modern tamperers with the ecclesiastical architecture. |