[f. prec. + -ER.] He who or that which energizes. (Used by Harris for: The agent of an action.)
1750. Harris, Hermes, I. ix. (1786), 174. Every Energy is necessarily situate between two Substantives, an Energizer which is active, and a Subject which is passive. Ibid., 175. Brutus loved Portia.—Here Brutus is the Energizer; loved, the Energy; and Portia, the Subject.
1882. W. B. Weeden, Soc. Law Labor, 28. He may be his … own energizer.
