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urger|ˈɜːdʒə(r)|
[f. urge v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who urges or incites. Also with on.
1598Florio, Scongiuratore, a conspirer, a coniurer, an vrger. 1605W. Bradshaw Eng. Puritanism v. 29 They hould that such an ooth (on the vrgers part) is most damnable. 1659F. Osborn Misc. Ess., etc. 149, I confesse Necessity cannot onely abate the Edge of these Reasons; but turne their Poynts against the Urger. 1704D'Urfey Heir Adopted lxx, 'Twas past all Bounds before, And needed not an urger on. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) II. xxix. 276 If the urger suspects not the fitness of his addresses. 1837B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Knights iv. i, The urgers-on of nimble steeds. 1892Temple Bar Mag. Dec. 496 Scott..was the tempter and urger in a ruinous policy. 1903T. Hardy Dynasts i. vi. iii, The Eternal Urger, pressing change on change.
b. A man who obtains money illegally or discreditably, esp. as a tipster at a racecourse. Austral. slang.
1919V. Marshall World of Living Dead 69 The truly light-fingered gentry, the racecourse urger (tip slinger), the magsman..never hesitate to express their contempt for the more roughly inclined of the profession. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Mar. 40/3 He was a tout or an urger, I gathered. ‘Mixed up in racecourses,’ was the way she put it. 1960A. Kimmins Lugs O'Leary v. 74 ‘An urger,’ explained Lugs patiently, ‘is a man who looks around for suckers like you and tips each one a different horse. Someone's got to win.’
2. An instigator or advocate, an earnest supporter or presenter, of something. Now rare.
In frequent use c 1620–c 1670.
1575Brieff Disc. Troub. Franckford 215 From whose..pennes, the vrgers of theis [letters] receiued first the light off the gospell. 1632Sir R. Le Grys tr. Velleius Paterc. 39 Marcus Cato, the perpetuall urger of the destruction thereof. 1640in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1692) I. 114 The Author and Urger of some Particular Changes. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 209 The Urgers of the forementioned Objection. 1847Coventry Dick in Brown Horæ Subs. (1882) 406 Nought detains the urger of these pleas, But dinners. |