1581. Mulcaster, Positions, v. (1887), 32. Reading being but the expresser of the written characters.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, vi. 83. And the Second [Worker] is the liuely exppresser of the First.
1623. Shakspere’s Wks., To Rdr. Who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
1642. Ld. Digby, Elvira (1667), 5. I stay’d to ask his Name, he, ready as I, To make his Sword th’expresser of his mind.
1872. J. Conington, Æneid, V. 340, note. Expressers of a favourable or adverse opinion.
b. One who possesses expressive power; a master of the art of expression.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, ">Iliad, I. Comm. (1857), 26. Our most accomplished expressor helps the illustration in a simile of his fervour. Ibid. (1615), Odyss., VIII. 124/708. This the diuine Expressor, did so giue Both act and passion, that he made it liue.
1856. Masson, Ess., Shaks. & Goethe, 23. He [Shakespeare] was the greatest expresser that ever lived.
