Obs. Also 4 listre, 4–5 lyster, 5 -are, -yr, -ore, lyysterre. [a. OF. listre, altered from litre:—L. lector (see LECTOR).] A reader or lector. In first quot., app. a preaching friar.

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1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 138. On limitoures and listres [v.rr. listers, legistreris] lesynges I ymped.

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c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 298. Somme freris procuren to be bisshopis, somme to be lystris.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VI. 257. He hadde a lyster at mete.

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1430–40.  Lydg., Bochas, I. iv. (1554), 7. Prudent listers, which list in bokes rede.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 307/1. Lyysterre (H. lystyr, S. lystore, P. listyr), lector (S. delector).

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1460.  Capgrave, Chron. (Rolls), 235. He … went to Rome and there was he mad lyster of the Paleis, and comensale with the Pope.

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1555.  W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. xii. 264. Porters, Scribes, Listers, and many other persones without office.

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