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  • noun Obsolete form of collector.

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Examples

  • Oration, because the speaker seemes to make a collection of all the former materiall points, to binde them as it were in a bundle and lay them forth to enforce the cause and renew the hearers memory, then ye may geue him more properly the name of the [_collectour_] or recapitulatour, and serueth to very great purpose as in an hympne written by vs to the Queenes

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • ¶ The estate of a prothonat: he is aboue the popes collectour, and a doctour of bothe the lawes.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • A letter of the learned Hungarian Stephanus Parmenius Budeius to master Richard Hakluyt the collectour of these voyages

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • A p {ro} thonot {ur} ap {ert} li, or þe popis collectour {e}, if he be ther {e},

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • But if such earnest and hastie heaping vp of speaches be made by way of recapitulation, which commonly is in the end of euery long tale and Oration, because the speaker seemes to make a collection of all the former materiall points, to binde them as it were in a bundle and lay them forth to enforce the cause and renew the hearers memory, then ye may geue him more properly the name of the [collectour] or recapitulatour, and serueth to very great purpose as in an hympne written by vs to the Queenes Maiestie entitled (Minerua) wherein speaking of the mutabilitie of fortune in the case of all Princes generally, wee seemed to exempt her Maiestie of all such casualtie, by reason she was by her destinie and many diuine partes in her, ordained to a most long and constant prosperitie in this world, concluding with this recapitulation.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  •  Gentlewomen may all eat with squires.] {++Þe popes legate or collectour {e}, to-ged {ur} ye assigne,

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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