Middle English Dictionary Entry
dītǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dītǒur n. Also diter, -ar. |
| Etymology | OF ditëor |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An author, writer, orator, or scribe; (b) law one who accuses another.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.163 : Of þis happe spekeþ a dytour [L exclamator].
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.249 : Marcus Porcius Latro Latinus, þat was declamator, a grete ditour.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Esth.8.9 : Whanne the dyteris [WB(1): scribis; L scribis] and writeris of the kyng weren clepid..pistlis weren writun.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)21a/a : Ditator: a ditour.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.373 : For þe delyueraunce of þe advoketes and ditoures.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)1335 : What shul we sey of þys dytours..Þat for hate a trewman wyl endyte?