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oˈpposer
Also 6 -ier.
[f. oppose v. + -er1.]
I.
1. a. One who ‘opposes’ the defender of a thesis in an academical disputation. Cf. oppose v. 2, opponent B. 1. Obs. exc. Hist.
c1500in Peacock Stat. Cambridge App. A. p. xlv, There shall wayte on hym [the Doctor] all the Opposers. 1574Ibid. p. xiv, Mr Vichauncellor, Mr Proctours, the Father, the Opposiers, the Bachiler awnswerynge and the Bedels.
b. (Usu. with capital initial.) One of two examiners formerly appointed to carry out at Winchester College the elections to New College, Oxford. Cf. poser1 1.
Rarely used, in preference to poser, even before 1901 (P. Yeats-Edwards, Fellows' librarian, Winchester College, private communication 28 Jan. 1977).
1891R. G. K. Wrench Winchester Word-bk. 32 Poser, an examiner. A very old word: also still used at Eton. Apposer and opposer are other old forms of it. 1901Rashdall & Rait New College vi. 132 The Warden and Opposers are not to take bribes.
†2. One who checks accounts: cf. oppose v. 3.
a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 51 The Chamberlayne is this clerke's auditor & opposer.
II.
3. One who opposes or contends against a person, doctrine, argument, cause, scheme, etc.: = opponent B. 2.
1601Shakes. All's Well iii. i. 6 Holy seemes the quarrell Vpon your Graces part: blacke and fearefull On the opposer. 1607― Cor. i. v. 23 Now the faire Goddesse Fortune, Fall deepe in loue with thee, and her great charmes Misguide thy Opposers swords. 1764Mem. G. Psalmanazar 195, I had a much greater number of opposers to combat with. 1776W. Nimmo Stirlingshire (1817) I. vi. 125 He had been a strenuous opposer of the Reformation. 1884Kendal Mercury 31 Oct. 5/2 The opposers of the scheme were a minority. |