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Definition of Definers
1. definer [n] - See also: definer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Definers
Literary usage of Definers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Progressive Speller: For Common Schools and Academies by Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook (1859)
"Vo LU MI NOUS, of many volumes. VUL' NEB A BLE, liable to injury. CHAPTER XL.
POLYSYLLABLES HAVING TWO definers. LESSON ce ler' i ty ex per i ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1874)
"Spellers, definers, Orthography, etc. ... Portuguese Grammar, $2 Afl. SPELLERS,
definers. ORTHOGRAPHY. ETC. [See also Primers and Grammar. ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The problem with this insistence is that it depends upon the ways definers in
various dictionaries have handled ascertain and neglects the far more ..."
4. The American Journal of Education and College Review by Absalom Peters, Henry Barnard, Samuel Sidwell Randall (1856)
"... in the midst of a whole host of reformers who quarrel with him and with each
other, while Spellers and New Spellers, definers and Revised definers, ..."
5. Letters from Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1870)
"Our spiritual forefathers were judges and definers in matters of doctrine, and
such we desire to remain; we do not choose to give a helping hand to making ..."
6. Visible Speech: The Science ... of Universal Alphabetics; Or Self by Alexander Melville Bell (1867)
"The ' definers' stand at the upper end of the stem for the ' high' vowel of each
class ; at the lower end for the ' low;' and at both ends for the ' mid' ..."
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