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单词 compositor
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compositorn.

/kəmˈpɒzɪtə/
Forms: Also Middle English compositur, 1500s– compositour, 1600s compositer ( composter).
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman compositour = French compositeur , < Latin compositōr-em , agent-noun < compōnĕre , composit- : see compone v., compose n.
1. One who composes or settles a dispute, etc.; an umpire, arbiter, peace-maker. Scottish. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 88 Yai trowyt yat he as gud nychtbur And as freyndsome compositur Wald hawe iugyt in lawte.
1527 Ld. Treas. Acc. Sc. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 272* Þe Bischop of Galloway, ane of the Compositouris at þe said Airis.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 4 Thir princes war compositouris of pece.
2. One who composes or compiles a literary work. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun]
bookerOE
writerOE
makerc1350
authora1382
inditera1387
pena1398
poetc1400
bookmakera1425
ditera1425
compilera1500
compositor?1533
book writer1565
penner1568
authorizera1579
bookwright1583
scribe1584
epistler1592
penman1592
scriptora1600
composer1603
book-breeder1605
comprisor?1623
volumist1641
scrivenera1660
literatist1660
knight of the quill1692
belletrist1816
scriever1825
creative writer1854
penworker1876
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Aii v Many..haue composed..rules..before that they haue ben conynge..The sayd composytours..ben by nature..checked, reproued, and corrected.
3. Printing. One whose business is to set up type to print from; a type-setter.
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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor
compositor1569
composer1634
setter1648
galley slave1683
typo1816
type-sticker1842
typist1843
setter-up1853
case man1855
typesetter1867
comp1870
compositress1885
1569 J. Hart Orthogr. sig. ¶v (title of poem) The compositor to the Reader.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 337 If the Compositor faile in the setting of his letters, the Printer that putteth ynke vpon the fourmes, doeth not correct the faultes of the Compositor.
1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) iv. iii. 142 The world's a Printing House..Each Soul is a Composter, of whose faults The Levires are Correctors: Heav'n revises; Death is the common Press.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. vi. 127 By the laws of printing, indeed, a compositor should abide by his copy.
1878 J. Morley Diderot I. 156 Fifty compositors were..setting up a book.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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