a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 68 For which he was so ratled up by the Repetitioner.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 817 In 1665 he was the Repeater or Repetitioner in S. Maries Church on Low Sunday, of the four Easter Sermons.

1850 R. Wallace Antitrinitarian Biogr. III. 171 His Recantation Sermon..was preached the day following that on which the Repetitioner had delivered his four Sermons.

?1720 Entertainer Contents p. viii The Dissenters are Babblers, Repetitioners, Wanderers from the Text.

1855 Church of Eng. Q. Rev. Apr. 360 The pupils are arranged under five classes... Here are spellers, readers, translators of Gospels, translators of Bibles, and lastly repetitioners, or those who can repeat passages..by heart.

1932 Sunday Times 31 Jan. 6/1 Those repetitioners, Racine and Cornéille, indulge in terrific mouthings about lovers slain by passion.

1941 D. F. Swenson tr. S. Kierkegaard Concluding Unscientific Postscript 67 He begs to be excused the exhalations and gaucheries of the disciple, fearing to be made ridiculous through repetitioners who reproduce what is said like a prattling echo.