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† ˈobservator Obs.
Also 6–7 -our.
[ad. F. observateur (1495 in Godef. Compl.), ad. L. observātor, agent-n. f. observāre to observe. Earlier stress observaˈtour, obˈservator, obserˈvator.]
1. One who observes a law, command, or rule: = observer 1.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) ii. iii. 89 Good & faythfull crysten people and true obseruatours of the commaundementes. Ibid. viii. 107 The observytour of this commaundement. 1663Gerbier Counsel 61 A constant observator of the three chief Principles of Building.
2. One who marks, notes, or makes observations. Formerly a frequent name for a newspaper or pamphlet, and often applied to the editor or writer: = observer 3.
1642View Print. Bk. int. Observat. 3 Prentices and Porters are below our Observator. 1682Sir. T. Browne Chr. Mor. iii. §10 To thoughtful Observators the whole World is a Phylactery. 1708Swift Sacram. Test Wks. 1755 II. i. 123 The archbishop of Dublin..whom you tamely suffer to be abused..by that paultry rascal of an observator. 1786A. Gib Sacr. Contempl. 448 It is quite another sort of world that the Essayer and his friend the Observator are for.
b. One who ‘observes’ by way of divination: cf. observe v. 6 b.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 287 Two genethliacall astrologers, and so precise observatours as that they calculated the births of the very brute beasts in their families.
c. One who keeps watch over or looks after something; a monitor.
1611Cotgr., Observateur,..an obseruator, monitor, bill⁓keeper, in Schooles. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. v. 26 The Provincial Guardians, or tutelary observators. 1706Phillips, Observator,..a Monitor in a School.
3. One who makes scientific observations, esp. in astronomy: = observer 4.
1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 166 The Observators nominated [to make observations in magnetical variation]. 1765Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 398 Our best observators could never find the parallax of the sun to be above eleven seconds. 1776Court & City Reg. 164/2 Astronomical Observator, Rev. N. Maskelyne. 1798J. Hornsby Introd. Bradley's Astron. Observ. i, The office of Astronomical Observator at the Observatory of Greenwich.
4. One who makes a verbal observation: = observer 5.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. ii. rule 3 §26 Which is well noted by the observator upon the mythologies of Natalis Comes. 1693Dryden Juvenal x. (1697) 270 She may be handsom, yet be Chaste, you say; Good Observator, not so fast away.
5. A case or receptacle for the host, serving the purpose of a monstrance.
1560Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) 262 Ane obseruatour of irne to the ewcharist. |