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expecter|ɛkˈspɛktə(r)|
Also 6–8 expector.
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who expects (in senses of vb.); one who looks for a person or thing to arrive.
1584R. Parsons Copy of Letter 107 Wher she is like by nature to out-liue the expector. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 723 Hee [Christ] must..be desired of the expecters. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy Pref., I am not..any expecter of a reign of nothing but saints and worthies. 1725Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 575 These are not likely to be great expecters [Wks. ed. 1745 expectors] under your excellency's administration. 1775in Ash; whence in mod. Dicts.
2. Name of a religious sect (see quot.).
1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 4) 145 Many have wrangled so long about the Church, that at last they have quite lost it, and go under the name of Expecters and Seekers. |