Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who takes, or gets control of, the whole; a monopolizer; specifically, a monopolizer of commodities or a commodity of trade or business.
- noun One who copies a writing in large fair characters, or in an ornamental manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.
- noun One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
copies a piece ofwriting in large, attractivecharacters . - noun One who takes the
whole ; apurchaser of such quantities in amarket as toraise theprice ; aforestaller .
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Examples
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“Yes,” replied the two copying-clerks and the engrosser, whose pens forthwith began to creak over the stamped paper, making as much noise in the office as a hundred cockchafers imprisoned by schoolboys in paper cages.
Le Colonel Chabert 2007
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“Yes,” replied the two copying-clerks and the engrosser, whose pens forthwith began to creak over the stamped paper, making as much noise in the office as a hundred cockchafers imprisoned by schoolboys in paper cages.
Le Colonel Chabert 2007
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What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The engrosser was looked upon as the natural enemy of the poor; and the power of the trading class was justly reckoned so great, that in cases of doubt prices were always fixed low rather than high.
An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien
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Indeed, the last and most valuable of these waste spaces, the New Forest itself, might have entirely disappeared had not Charles I. (the last king in England to attempt a repression of the landed class) so forcibly urged the local engrosser to disgorge as to compel him, with Hampden and the rest, to a burning zeal for political liberty.
The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911
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The scarcity of Groser, grocer, is not surprising, for the word, aphetic for engrosser, originally meaning a wholesale dealer, one who sold en gros, is of comparatively late occurrence.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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You should, in compassion, cease to be such an engrosser, my dear Isabel, or at least set up shop, and sell off all the goods you do not mean to keep for your own use. ''
The Black Dwarf 1898
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Consequently, New York must have signed the original Declaration before it had gone into the hands of the engrosser.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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But although Robin laughed at the droll sight, he knew the wayfarer to be a certain rich corn engrosser of Worksop, who more than once had bought all the grain in the countryside and held it till it reached even famine prices, thus making much money from the needs of poor people, and for this he was hated far and near by everyone that knew aught of him.
The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882
frindley commented on the word engrosser
Not just any calligrapher or illuminator, I'd guess, but one who is particularly absorbed in the work.
September 23, 2008