† 1. One who informs, notifies, or warns. Obs.
c. 1565. Lindsay, Hist. Scotl. (1728), 55. The first advertiser of this prosperous success brought with him Archibald Douglas’s head.
1611. Cotgr., Advertisseur, an advertiser, informer, intelligencer.
1665–6. in Phil. Trans., I. 15. The solution of Plains and Solids, which had been seen (as the Advertiser affirms) before Monsieur Des Cartes had publish’d anything upon this subject.
2. One who issues a public notice or announcement.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 521, ¶ 4. He has desired the Advertiser to compose himself a little, before he dictated the Description of the offender.
1784. Cowper, Task, II. Argt. The reverend advertiser of engraved sermons.
1882. Daily News, 4 May, 1/1. N.B.—Advertisers are requested to make their Post-office Orders payable to [etc.].
3. A journal or other print in which advertisements are published.
1769. Burke, Pres. State, Wks. II. 13. They have drawled through columns of Gazetteers and Advertisers for a century together.
1770. Junius Lett., Pref. 13. This edition contains all the letters of Junius … according to the order in which they appeared in the Public Advertiser.
1841. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), VI. 303. Just as an advertisement in the body of some of the ‘monster’ advertisers of the day, amounts to next to no advertisement at all.
1882. (title) The Morning Advertiser.
