discourser

English

Etymology

From discourse +‎ -er.

Noun

discourser (plural discoursers)

1. One who discourses; a narrator or speaker.
   • 1668, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, the life of Edward Earl of Clarendon:

     In his conversation he was the most clear discourser.

2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     philologers and critical discoursers

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discourser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)