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† setter-on Obs. [See set v.1 148.] 1. One who sets on; an instigator or inciter.
c1550Bale K. Johan 2482 (Manly) Tyll my setters-on were of their purpose wyde. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. Pref. 4 b, I sent unto them that were my setters on, at Woormes. 1616R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 163 The Jesuistes and other padres are the fyre brands and setters on of all this, in provoking children against parents and subjects against their naturall princes. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vi. ix, The great Dowdy who acts the part of a madman as well as some of his setters-on do that of a fool. 2. One who ‘sets on’ or makes an onset. rare.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 294, I made once a vowe that the first battaile that eyther the king your father or any of his children should be at, how that I would be one of the first setters on, or else to die in the trauaile. |