Also 7 (Sc.) -veener, -viner, -veiner. [f. prec. + -ER.] One who contravenes.
1567. Sc. Acts 1 Jas. VI. (1597), § 21. Executand the paines conteined in this present Act, against the contraveneris thereof.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., Treatise, 141. Quhilk paine the Provest and Baillies sall pay, gif they searche not, nor seikes the contraviners.
1645. St. Trials, Sir R. Spotswood (R.). The contravener of any act of parliament.
1860. Geo. Eliot, Mill on Fl., II. ii. The measures he was bent on taking against that rash contravener.
1880. Muirhead, trans. Ulpian, i. § 1. Nor imposes a penalty on the contravener.
