[f. USHER v. + -ER1.] One who or that which ushers in; an usher or harbinger. Also with in. Occas. fig.

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1598.  Marston, Scourge of Villanie, II. v. E 4 b. Codrus my well-fac’d Ladies taile-bearer, (He that some-times play’th Flauias usherer).

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1640.  Reynolds, Passions, xxxv. 424. The Usherers in, or Attendants and followers on the Grave, Age, Infirmity, Sicknesse.

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c. 1645.  Howell, Lett., IV. xxix. (1890), 607. True spiritual Pride, the usherer-in of all Confusions.

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1834.  Galt, Rothelan, II. III. ii. 16. The Past is usherer to the Future.

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1892.  Walt Whitman, in Harper’s Mag., April, 709/2. Thee [sc. Death], envoy, usherer, guide at last of all.

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