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creditor|ˈkrɛdɪtə(r)|
Also 5–6 credytour, 6 -or, 5–7 creditour.
[In 15th c. creditour, a. Anglo-Fr. creditour = OF. crediteur, credeteur (early 14th c. in Godef.). The OF. word had become obs. in 16–17th c., but it reappeared in Savary Dict. du Comm. 1723, and was admitted by the Academy in 1878.]
1. One who gives credit for money or goods; one to whom a debt is owing; correlative to debtor.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 158 Than ask I..wych of these tuo Dettours the credytour was moste holdyn to. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 14 Make satisfacion to your creditours. 1513More Rich. III in Grafton Chron. II. 770 Now unthriftes riott and runne in debt..and byd their creditors go whistle. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 23 Though they cannot pay their creditours. 1727Swift Gulliver ii. vi. 151 He asked me who were our creditors; and where we found money to pay them. 1827Lytton Pelham I. i. 7 It will just pay off our most importunate creditors.
attrib.1881H. H. Gibbs Double Stand. 68 England, it is said, being a creditor country, would always be paid in the cheaper metal.
fig.1595Shakes. John iii. iii. 21 There is a soule counts thee her Creditor, and with aduantage meanes to pay thy loue. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2) 188 He hath more debtors in knowledge among the present Writers, then Creditors among the ancient Poets.
2. Book-keeping. Creditor (or Cr.) being written at the top of the right-hand or credit side of an account (originally in personal accounts, in apposition with the name of the person whose account it is), is hence applied to that side of any account, or to what is entered there. (Formerly with pl. = credit n. 12 b.)
1543(title), A profitable Treatyce..to learne..the kepyng of the famouse reconynge, called in Latyn, Dare and Habere, and in Englyshe, Debitor and Creditor, etc. 1588J. Mellis Briefe Instr. C v b, The left side..is Debitor, and the other Creditor. 1660Willsford Scales Comm. 208 Place the Creditors upon the right-hand page, and all the Debitors on the left, the pages number'd by 1. 1. 2. 2 so as the Dr. and Cr. make but one folio upon either side. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman (1841) I. xv. 131 Stock Dr. To cash of my father..{pstlg}800. Stock Cr... By house rent, at 50l. per an... {pstlg}500.
attrib.1588J. Mellis Briefe Instr. C v, The Creditor syde of this your first leafe, declareth in briefe sentences where the estate of your Chyst in money is bestowed. 1806G. Fisher Instructor (ed. 29) 139 Cast up the Dr. and Cr. Sides of your Balance; and if they come out both alike, then are your Accompts well kept.
†3. One who becomes surety for (a person or thing). Obs. [Cf. med.L. creditor in sense of ‘curator’, and creancer 2.]
a1400Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 176 Symeon. Alle heyl! my kyndely comfortour! Anna. Alle heyl! mankyndys creditour. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclxxxiv. (R.), Frende, appease yourselfe, thou shalte be well payed or this day be ended; kepe the nere me, I shall be thy credytour.
†4. One who credits or believes. Obs. rare.
1597Daniel Civ. Wares iii. lxxxiii, The easie creditours of novelties.
5. attrib., as creditor-account, creditor-nation.
1899Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 7/3 Creditor-account balances.
1897Daily News 30 Nov. 4/6 This country, the great creditor nation of the world. 1919J. L. Garvin Econ. Foundations of Peace 445 America's new position as a great creditor-nation. 1948G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) ix. 328 The view that the so-called ‘creditor’ nation may be just as responsible as the ‘debtors’ for the disequilibrium in the exchanges.
Hence ˈcreditorship.
1798Colebrooke tr. Digest Hindu Law (1801) I. 10 Creditorship and debtorship are distinguished by some peculiarities. |