Obs. [f. ENDEAVOUR v. + -ER.] One who endeavors; an aspirant.
1586. W. Webbe, Disc. Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 15. Your worshyppe cannot chuse, but continue your wonted fauourable benignitie towardes all the indeuourers to learning.
1645. J. Lilburne, in Prynne, Fresh Disc. Blazing Stars, 34. An endeavourer to set the Princes of the earth together by the ears.
1663. Cowley, Verses & Ess. (1669), 83. ’Tis crowded … with the most burdensome sort of Guests, the Endeavourers to be witty.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 167, ¶ 1. Labour and Industry will but push the unhappy Endeavourer … the further off his Wishes.
