Container

[f. as prec. + -ER¹.] He who or that which contains.

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1502. Atkynson, trans. T. à Kempis’ Imit., XXV. 218. Thy worde forsayd is short & conteyner of great perfeccyon.

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1592. Daniel, Compl. Rosamond (1717), 61. Fair Eyes, Containers of my Bliss.

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1697. J. Sergeant, Solid Philos., 175. Their Notion of Place is to be a Container.

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1783. H. Blair, Rhet. (1812), I. xiv. 339. The relation between the container and the thing contained.

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1824. L. Murray, Eng. Gram. (ed. 5), I. 501. ‘The kettle boils,’ is a phrase where the name of the container is substituted for that of the thing contained.

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1865. Bushnell, Vicar Sacr., III. i. 187. The only Being, and the container of all forces to be.

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