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ˈoutcrier Now rare.
[out- 8.]
One who cries out. a. One who raises an outcry; a brawler.
1535Coverdale Isa. xlii. 1 He shal not be an outcryer, ner an hie mynded person. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 150 Plagues, disturbers, outcryers, and iniurious agaynst God and hys Saints. 1584Leycesters Commonw. (1641) 30 To stop the mouths of out-criars. 1902Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 344 If..any of our outcriers harbour the delusion that a School would inculcate something more than technical tricks [etc.]. 1931Tablet 23 May 673/1 Once more the outcriers have cried out before they are hurt. 1942Beerbohm in Listener 24 Sept. 389/1 One is taught to believe that the outcriers are entirely altruistic men.
†b. One who sells by auction (outcry n. 2).
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1207/1 To be cried through the citie by a man with a bell, and then to be sold by the common outcrier appointed for that purpose. |