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representant, n.|rɛprɪˈzɛntənt|
[= F. représentant (1694), Sp. representante (whence quot. 1622), pres. pple. of représenter etc.: see represent v. and -ant1.]
†1. A stage-performer; an actor. Obs. rare—1.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 175 Hee is but a man, a representant, a poore kinde of Comedian.
2. A person representing another or others; a representative. rare.
1651Wotton's Panegyrick to K. Chas. in Reliq. W. (1672) 153 As the supreme Character of the Most High is Verity: so what can more become..his Representants on earth, then Veracity it self? 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 300 They that are the Representants of a Christian People, are Representants of the Church. 1831T. Hope Ess. Origin Man III. 125 heading, Representative government.—Control over the representants.
3. An equivalent or counterpart.
1863Tyndall Heat iv. §144 (1870) 124 This experiment is the microscopic representant of what occurs in Iceland.
So repreˈsentant a., ‘representing, having vicarious power’ (Worcester, 1860, citing Latham). |