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competitor|kəmˈpɛtɪtə(r)|
Also 6–7 -tour.
[a. F. compétiteur (16th c. in Littré), or its source L. competītor, one of several who aim at the same object, a fellow-candidate, rival, agent-n. f. competĕre in its active sense: see compete v.2 The accentuation indicates adoption from F. rather than L., which would naturally have given compeˈtitor, ˈcompetitor.]
1. One who competes, or engages in a competition; one who seeks an object in rivalry with others also seeking it; a rival. Const. with († of) another; for († of, to) an object; in a sphere or match.
1534Ld. Berners Gold Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) R ij b, The noble Amilcares of Carthage, competitours of the Scipions of Rome. 1588Allen Admon. 20 In suche a number of competitors of the croune. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. i. 77 They..cannot brooke Competitors in loue. 1597Bacon Coulers i. in Ess. (Arb.) 139 Diuers competitors to a place. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (J.), His brother Mechemetes, competitor of the kingdom. 1691Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 301 Several persons are competitors for the lord lieutenancy. 1712Steele Spect. No. 270 ⁋1 To be no Man's Rival in Love, or Competitor in Business. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 335 To give judgment on the competitors. 1876J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. I. ii. i. 246 Noblemen..were competitors with him in the same race of political honours.
b. One placed in competition.
1656S. Winter Serm. 128 They exalted works above Christ, or at least made them competitors with Christ. 1858Gladstone Homer I. 13 [Homer has] a supremacy among poets, without real competitors or partners, except Dante and Shakspeare. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 81 As far as the eye could range Mont Blanc had no competitor.
†2. One associated with another in seeking the same common object; an associate, a partner. Obs.
1579Fenton Guicciard. i. (1599) 3 The league..was..renewed in the yeare 1480 for xxv yeares, being competitors and parties therein almost all the meaner Potentates of Italy. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vi. 35 My selfe in counsaile his competitor. 1594― Rich. III, iv. iv. 506 In Kent, my Liege, the Guilfords are in Armes, And euery houre more Competitors Flocke to the Rebels. 1624Heywood Gunaik. v. 230 By the helpe of Theodotus, (whom she made competitor in the Empire). 1681E. Murphy State Ireland §42 He would not be competitor in their Robberies.
†3. = competent n. Obs.
1697tr. Dupin's Hist. Eccl. Writers II. 109 They gave the Name of Competitors to those who were in a Condition to receive Baptism. |