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setter-forth [See set v.1 144.] One who sets forth (in various senses); one who promulgates an opinion, who equips an expedition, etc.
1451Rolls of Parlt. V. 225/1 Noon owner, Vitailler, nor setter-forth of eny Shippe or Vessell. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 5 marg., Mecænas was..so great a fauourer, promouter, and setter fourthe of Virgil, Horace, & suche other learned menne, that [etc.]. 1611Bible Acts xvii. 18 He seemeth to be a setter foorth of strange gods. 1616Capt. Smith Descr. New Eng. 48, I was beholden to the setters forth of the foure ships that went with Cooper. a1700Evelyn Diary Aug. 1641 (1879) I. 22 Mr. Bleaw, the setter forth of the Atlas's and other workes of that kind. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. III. xl. 319 Sebastian Cabota..was the chief Setterforth of the first Voyage into those Parts. 1840Browning Sordello i. 26 Your setters-forth of unexampled themes. |