What does "directer" mean?
Archaic form of director.
Directer
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Archaic form of director.
- Grammar: directer is listed as adj, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: administrator, chief, director, manager.
- Useful contrasts: correct spelling, follower, proper spelling.
- Usage evidence: 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.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Archaic form of director. alt-of, archaic
"A rule, according to the sense affixed to it by canonists and moralists, is a guide to discipline, and a directer of the conduct."
Adjective
- 1 comparative form of direct: more direct comparative, form-of
"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."
Synonyms
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Example
"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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "directer"?
Common synonyms include: administrator, chief, director, manager, misspelling, variant spelling.
How do you use "directer" in a sentence?
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.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From direct + -er (suffix forming comparative adjectives).
Etymology 2
By surface analysis, direct + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).