rare–1. [a. L. locūtor, f. loquī to speak.] A speaker.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 174. As though the whisper were of such commercial moment that the locutor feared its instantaneous transport to the ears of Rothschild.
Hence Locutorship, the office of spokesman.
a. 1861. Mrs. Browning, Lett. R. H. Horne (1877), II. xlii. 14. I will not say that there is not some overdaring in relation to divine things, the locutorship of the Holy Ghost being among them.
