Also 5 construare, -stirrere, 7– sterer. [f. CONSTRUE v. + -ER1.] One who construes.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 91. Construare, constructor.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., A constirrere, expositor, constructor.

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1607.  S. Collins, Serm. (1608), 67. Detorted and wrested another way … as is the humor of the Consterer.

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1612.  Brinsley, Lud. Lit., 112. Where the construer sticketh, or goeth amisse, to call him backe to the rule.

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1656.  Hobbes, Six Less., Wks. 1845, VII. 200. Which definition … to a candid construer, is sound.

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