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1696 Some Considerations about Raising Coin 28 Those Princes..have taken to themselves the Title of the Restorators of their Coins.

1730 W. P. tr. P. de Ribadeneyra Lives Saints I. 50/1 Sanctificator, Restorator, and Glorifier of our Souls.

1840 A. Bunn Stage III. 253 I will content myself by asking if the great restorator of the drama ever ‘cast’ an opera with the force by which Don Juan was supported at Drury Lane in 1833?

1896 M. Fluegel Messiah-ideal I. i. 15 Hence..are Abraham, Moses and the prophets not so much the inaugurators, as rather the restorators of the universal innate faith.

1920 Archit. Rec. 47 168/1 In the town of Gloucester are some interesting old houses... The others have, unfortunately, suffered from the attentions of an over-zealous restorator.

1970 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 18 Apr. 19/8 Restorators, a surveyor and other specialists will also take part.

2001 C. R. L. Villalta in D. B. Marken Palenque xiii. 273 Reconstruction is prohibited a priori..in that any honest restorators must try to avoid inventing any element that did not previously exist.

1819 Christian Disciple & Theol. Rev. 1 158 Even reserve, and silence, and quiet, will occasionally prove great restorators.

1887 M. B. Crowninshield Ignoramuses iv. 196 Good Lawd! he's gone and took my ha'r restorator.

1945 Rotarian Apr. 32/2 Those now in the middle-age brackets—may recall when flaming ads told of ‘Record's Vital Restorator’..and fake obesity cures and hair restorers without number.

2001 B. Borghi in T. P. Sculco & E. A. Martucci Knee Arthroplasty xx. 235/2 Exercises may consist of..patellar mobilization, and stationary bicycle or restorator.

1796 Boston Directory 261 Julien ——, restorator, Milk street.

1851 Boston Directory 12 Allen William, restorator, 131 Cambridge.

1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 793 Restorator, the keeper of a restaurant, or house of refreshment.

2003 M. Sokolow Charles Benson viii. 143 He began at a restaurant in Derby Square, working for Joseph Morris, an oyster-dealer and ‘restorator’ since 1850.

1797 New Star (Concord, New Hampsh.) 9 May 38/2 A description of Colonel ——'s Restorator in Concord, with all its Apparatus.

1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 78 I was workt up to a high pitch, & I proceeded to a Restorator & cooled orf with some little fishes biled in ile.

1897 Harper's Mag. May 955/1 I's keeping a restorator, I is, and' I's trustin' you' an' Miss Connie twell yo' kin pay me.

1937 Maine: Guide ‘Down East’ 338 All trains had a 10-minute stop at North Berwick and passengers would rush from the cars to the ‘restorator’ to buy large portions of the cake.

1966 Los Angeles Times 26 Oct. iv. 7/4 The first ‘Restorator’, as distinguished from a tavern, was opened in Boston by Jean Baptiste Gilbert Peyplat in 1794.