taker-upn.

a1425 (c1400) Primer (BL Add. 36683) in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1882) III. 147 I shal seie to god, thou art my taker up [L. susceptor].

1550 Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI c. 16 §10 Such childe to be vsed..to what labor..soeuer the said taker vp or M^r or Maistres shall appointe him.

1619 J. Mayer Patterne for Women 142 O Holy Iesus; my virtue, my refuge, my taker vp, my deliuerer, and my praise.

1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya IV. xliv. vii. 124 Which power belongs to the maintainer of the infant, whether he be the brother, uncle, or (in the case of a foundling,) the Mooltakit, or taker-up.

2001 M. Carter Anthony Blunt (2002) iii. 53 He was a well-connected, cosmopolitan young English don..passionate about the theatre, and a great taker-up of promising undergraduates.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iii. f. xliii^v Than came also the Publicans, that is to saye, the customers and takers vp of tolles.

1570 R. Porder Serm. Gods Fearefull Threatnings f. 63 Let these takers vp of poore mens credite consider what they do in this case.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xcii. 569/2 Let the poore and needy be pityed; Let men knowe them to be the takers vp of Gods rents.

1603 H. Chettle Englandes Mourning Garment sig. C3 One of her owne seruants, a Taker vp of prouision.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 390 The Taker vp of the money at London, payeth for twelue pence the said marke of 13⅓ pence, at two or three moneths Time in Scotland.

a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 50 Taker up of the Rents of that Earldom.

1739 Gen. Treat. Naval Trade & Commerce II. ii. 32 There was no Respect had to the Ability of the Taker up of the Money, but to him who gave his Letters of Credit.

c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. D.iiii Though it be a very hard thing to be a perfite taker vp, and as it were a man vniuersally practised in all accidentes of a mans life, yit doth the Barnard go so farre beyond him in cunning.

1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage To Rdr. sig. B2^v Four persons were required to perform their coosning commodity. The Taker vp, the Verser, the Barnard and the Rutter... The Taker vp is a skilfull man in all things, who hath by long trauaile learned..to insinuate himselfe into a mans acquaintance.

1913 F. Aydelotte Elizabethan Rogues & Vagabonds iv. 89 In Barnard's Law there is the Taker-up—an affable fellow, able to converse engagingly on any subject, and to get the ‘Cousin’..into a tavern and into a game.

2004 C. Dionne in C. Dionne & S. Mentz Rogues & Early Mod. Eng. Culture (2006) i. 56 The implicit message to the reader..is to guard one's self from the urban stranger. Only then is the taker-up powerless to fake friendship and the rogue shut out from citizenship.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 141 Their owners..must then remember to rewarde the taker vp of his Hawke liberally.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1859/1 The Queenes Maiesty was the taker vp of y^e matter, in this wise.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Recogedor A gatherer, a taker vp, collector, receptor.

1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 120 It is..a taker vp of time that may be better disposed.

1648 R. Weldon Doctr. Script. xi. 154 The contrary Doctrine of the Zealots, and takers up of the Sword.

1688 Christian's New-years-gift (single sheet) The sullen Child when fallen down, Spurns at its taker up, and would not own Those Arms that save him from the fatal Ground.

1777 A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) ii. xiv. 520 We divide our hands into four classes, which we term Takers-up, Pruners, Carriers, and Planters.

1839 Public & Gen. Statute Laws Illinois 507 As a reward to the taker up of such negro, there shall be paid by the owner, if any, before he shall receive him from the sheriff, ten dollars.

1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 519/1 A ravandeuse, or taker up of stitches in silk stockings.

1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 501 The takers-up follow the mower.

1953 H. N. Hillebrand & T. W. Baldwin in W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida 70 Aeneas says that if the taker-up of the challenge is a true lover..then he is a fit man for Hector.

1992 M. D. Steinberg Moral Communities i. 26 A press feeder could earn as much as 30 rubles a month and a taker-up as much as 20 rubles.

1997 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 4 Sept. a4 Diana did not see the position of the Royals as one that neutered them, made them merely takers up of space.

1578 in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) vi. 297 Takers up of Psalms, and other Officers of the Church.

1641 1st & 2nd Bk. Discipline (Church of Scotl.) ii. xii. 98 Clerks of Assemblies, takers up of the Psalmes, Beadels and keepers of the Kirk.

1842 R. Pitcairn in J. Melvill Autobiogr. & Diary Index 834/2 Precentor, or taker up of the Psalm.

1662 Lawes of Virginia lxix. 41 The former Act concerning deserted Lands reserved to the first taker up his Rights to take up Land in another place.

1700 All Laws of Maryland 28 Unless such building be larger than herein exprest, shall by vertue thereof, and of the building and finishing as aforesaid invest the taker up and builder as aforesaid, with an Estate of Inheritance in the said Lott.

1821 T. W. Griffith Sketches Early Hist. Maryland 32 There is no doubt but illegal fees had been frequently exacted on the takers up of land.

1860 Provisional Laws Gen. Assembly Jefferson Territory 92 Such claim shall be considered valid when the taker-up, who is the constructive occupant..has marked it out and so designated the boundaries thereof.

2011 J. W. McWilliams Annapolis ii. 30 Takers up paid the landowner a fee.., but they were required to build a twenty-foot-square house within a year in order to get title to the lot.