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1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration sig .d i In that place he hath set princes whom as representours of his image vnto men, he would haue to be reputed, [etc.].

1643 C. Herle Answer to Fernes Reply 30 Their consents..should oblige the Commonalty as consenting in their Representors.

1653 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 7 Colonel Pride is chosen one of the Representors for..London.

1747 Newcastle Gen. Mag. June 162/2 There is on thing more wanting, not in the Legislature, but to be serviceable to them; and that is, a Board of Representors, consisting of some wealthy Farmers, Artisans, and Manufacturers, who see more into low Life than Gentlemen of great Estates can do.

1788 G. Eunson Anc. & Present State Orkney 76 He, or his special friends, are generally elected the parliamentary representors of this county and burgh.

1806 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 27 Dec. 1021 I might here enumerate the reiterated attempts which, since the repeal of this measure, have been made to revive it; together with the instructions of whole counties to their representors to that effect.

1864 Trans. Glasgow Archæol. Soc. (1868) 1 iv. 356 The representors of four of these partners in 1736, when M^cUre published his View of the City, enjoyed the same [increase in stock].

1950 Times 2 Sept. 3/3 Each clan will be allotted a marquee on one of the adjoining fields, where the chief or his representor will display his flag.

1984 W. Lycan in B. K. Matilal & J. L. Shaw Anal. Philos. in Compar. Perspective (1985) 89 Thoughts are representors in the brain, made of brain stuff; bits of language are representors out in the open air, made of sound waves or ink marks.

1991 Amer. Indian Q. 15 174 She is the last living representor of..the easternmost tribe of Pomo who once lived in the eastern hills above Clear Lake.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 262 Art being but the Imitator or secondary representor, it must not vary from the verity of the example. View more context for this quotation

1660 T. Salusbury tr. D. Bartolli Learned Man Defended & Reform'd ii. 173 Did it not suffice that they were published to all the Earth..unlesse also moreover they had given them the Heavens for a Theater, the Stars for Representors, and the World for Auditors.

1774 ‘Toby Broadgrin’ Bk. Oddities (1790) 62 Where are the Children of Israel? My lord, they are gone over, replies the representor.

1841 Musical Mag. Mar. 91 Music being the delineator of passions and feelings, and not the representor of ideas, it wants not the development of character, but situations in which passions act.

1985 Cinema Jrnl. 24 19 The location of the viewing subject before the screen..having surrendered her or his mobility to the figures in the representation and to the all-powerful representor himself who moves the camera.

1665 in Coll. N.Y. Hist. Soc. (1869) 110 You will finde your Represento^r in this Labours to preserve, from a necessary Ruine the Poore Countrie that hath intrusted him.

1827 Times 12 Dec. 3/5 In the opinion of the representors, the accident happened through the want of a proper superintendent to point out the mode in which the palace ought to have been demolished.

1839 Cases decided House of Lords VII. 90 The present representor and his brother jointly keeping an office which has been found to have belonged to the pursuer, it seems to the Lord Ordinary, [etc.].

1884 Law Notes Dec. 367/1 When he [sc. the representee] sees that the representor has made advances towards realizing the expectations which have been created in his mind by the representation, he is clearly entitled to assign some weight to what the representor has stated.

1911 G. S. Bower Law Actionable Misrepresentation 1 A representation is a statement made by, or on behalf of, one person (hereinafter called ‘the representor’).

1971 R. A. Percy Charlesworth on Negligence (ed. 5) ii. 34 There was no contract, fiduciary relationship or reliance by the representee upon the special skill, knowledge or training possessed by the representor.

2003 N. Hopkins in E. Cooke Mod. Stud. Prop. Law II. viii. 159 The case thus involved a misprediction..generated by a positive assurance by the representor.