[f. COMPASS v.1 + -ER1.] One who compasses; esp. † a designer, contriver.
1494. Fabyan, VII. 563. The duke … compasser of all this myschefe.
a. 1593. H. Smith, Serm. (1622), 492. He hath his compassers and spies in euery country.
1641. Newrobe, Canterb. Medit., 1. The heart that same most glorious contriver, and my intellect that comprehensive compasser are both struck dumbe as dimme, with the too much Sun-shine of my former Fortunes, compared with these my intollerable and insupportable distresses.
