rare or Obs. [a. L. agent-n. f. contiōnāt-: see above. Cf. OF. concionateur.] One who makes speeches or harangues; a preacher.
1623. Cockeram, Concionator, a Preacher.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. xi. 246. Like some simple Concionator, who naming his Text in a Country Auditory, shut the book, and took leave of it, for the whole howre.
1830. Carlyle, in Froude, Life (1882), II. 129. No priest, but a concionator.
2. (See quot.)
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Concionator … In our ancient Writers, a Common Council-man, a Mot-worthy, a Freeman call’d to the Hall or Assembly.
