directer

English

Adjective

directer

1. comparative form of direct: more direct
   • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie‎^[1]:

     But by this figure [Noema] the obscurity of the sence lieth not in a single word, but in an entier speech, whereof we do not so easily conceiue the meaning, but as it were by coniecture, because it is wittie and subtile or darke, which makes me therefore call him in our vulgar the [Close conceit] as he that said by himselfe and his wife, I thanke God in fortie winters that we haue liued together, neuer any of our neighbours set vs at one, meaning that they neuer fell out in all that space, which had bene the directer speech and more apert, and yet by intendment amounts all to one, being neuerthelesse dissemblable and in effect contrary.

   • 1895, William Dean Howells, My Literary Passions‎^[2]:

     I will own that I am rather glad that sort of thing seems to be out of fashion now, and I think the directer and franker methods of modern fiction will forbid its revival.

   • 1916, T. R. Glover, The Jesus of History‎^[3]:

     Paul puts the same in directer language; sin reduces men to a position where they are "alienated from the life of God" (Eph. 4:18; Col. 1:21), "without God in the world" (Eph. 2:12), "enemies of God" (Rom. 5:10; Col. 1:21); but he does not say more than Jesus implies.

Noun

directer (plural directers)

1. Archaic form of director.
   • 1809, The European Magazine, and London Review, volume 55, page 174:

     A rule, according to the sense affixed to it by canonists and moralists, is a guide to discipline, and a directer of the conduct.

Anagrams

• cedriret, recredit, redirect

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīrectāre (“to direct”), influenced by English direct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʁɛk.te/

Verb

directer

1. (Louisiana) to run; to direct

Conjugation

Conjugation of directer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	directer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	directant /di.ʁɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		directé /di.ʁɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	directe /di.ʁɛkt/	directes /di.ʁɛkt/	directe /di.ʁɛkt/	directons /di.ʁɛk.tɔ̃/	directez /di.ʁɛk.te/	directent /di.ʁɛkt/
	imperfect	directais /di.ʁɛk.tɛ/	directais /di.ʁɛk.tɛ/	directait /di.ʁɛk.tɛ/	directions /di.ʁɛk.tjɔ̃/	directiez /di.ʁɛk.tje/	directaient /di.ʁɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	directai /di.ʁɛk.te/	directas /di.ʁɛk.ta/	directa /di.ʁɛk.ta/	directâmes /di.ʁɛk.tam/	directâtes /di.ʁɛk.tat/	directèrent /di.ʁɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	directerai /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁe/	directeras /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁa/	directera /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁa/	directerons /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	directerez /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁe/	directeront /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	directerais /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	directerais /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	directerait /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	directerions /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	directeriez /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁje/	directeraient /di.ʁɛk.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	directe /di.ʁɛkt/	directes /di.ʁɛkt/	directe /di.ʁɛkt/	directions /di.ʁɛk.tjɔ̃/	directiez /di.ʁɛk.tje/	directent /di.ʁɛkt/
	imperfect2	directasse /di.ʁɛk.tas/	directasses /di.ʁɛk.tas/	directât /di.ʁɛk.ta/	directassions /di.ʁɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	directassiez /di.ʁɛk.ta.sje/	directassent /di.ʁɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	directe /di.ʁɛkt/	—	directons /di.ʁɛk.tɔ̃/	directez /di.ʁɛk.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• diriger
• direct
• directeur
• direction
• dirigeable