Also 6 -oure, 7 -our. [f. SUGGEST v. + -ER1. Cf. 16th-c. F. suggesteur, and cf. SUGGESTOR.]
† 1. One who imputes crime to, or brings a charge against, another. Obs.
1450–1530. Myrr. Our Ladye, II. 183. Consentynge to the enuyful sturrer and suggestoure.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Bloody Brother, III. i. Some suborn’d suggester of these treasons.
1627. in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 438. King James, who … wanted not some suggesters about him to make the worst of all mens actions whom they could misreport.
1630. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlem. (1641), 24. Whereby that base suggestour might be duely censured.
2. One who suggests or prompts.
1671. Clarendon, Dial., Tracts (1727), 308. If it [sc. age] cannot suggest all things which occur to more vigorous conceptions, it can judge better of what is suggested than the suggesters themselves.
a. 1710. Bull, Prim. Christ. (1713), III. 885. The Spirit of God in Person is not the immediate Suggester of this Conclusion.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile, 1805. Suggesters to his soul of higher things.
1893. C. G. Leland, Mem., I. 99. I also was the suggester, father, and founder in London of the Rabelais Club.
1903. F. W. H. Myers, Human Pers., I. 206. Some telepathic impact from the suggester’s mind.
