Also 7 -tor. [f. SUBSTITUTE v. + -ER1.] One who supplies the place of another; one who substitutes one thing for another.
1623. Cockeram, II. To Appoint one in anothers roome, Substitute, which is Appointed in that roome, Substitude, which Appointed him, Substitutour.
1635. J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Banish’d Virg., 81. The Prince answered, that he was sorry for his parting, but embraced the favour of his substitute, not to expect any service from him, but to doe him the service he owed his substitutor.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 617. The favour of Mr. Wilberforce … was at that time an object of importance to the right-minded substituter of the name.
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., Albani & Pict.-Dealers, Wks. II. 6. This substituter of grass and moss for cabbage and onions.
1897. Chr. Herald (N. Y.), 15 Dec., 975/2. Substitutors drug their concoctions to give them a coffee flavor.
