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expresser, -or|ɛkˈsprɛsə(r)| [f. express v.1 + -er1, -or.] One who or that which expresses.
1581Mulcaster Positions v. (1887) 32 Reading being but the expresser of the written characters. 1587Golding De Mornay vi. 73 And the Second [Worker] is the liuely expresser of the First. 1623Shakspere's Wks. To Rdr., Who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. 1642Ld. Digby Elvira (1667) 5 Ready..To make his Sword th' expresser of his mind. 1872Conington Aeneid v. 340 note, Expressers of a favourable or adverse opinion. b. One who possesses expressive power; a master of the art of expression.
c1611Chapman Iliad i. Comm. (1865) 26 Our most accomplished expressor helps the illustration in a simile of his fervour. 1615― Odyss. viii. 708 The divine expressor did so give Both act and passion, that he made it live. 1856Masson Ess., Shaks. & Goethe 23 He [Shakespeare] was the greatest expresser that ever lived. |