Also 6 Sc. -ar. [f. as prec. + -ER1.]
† 1. One who sells; a seller, vendor. Obs.
1542–3. Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII., c. 6. The Penaltie … shall oonelie extende to the Utterer and Seller of the saide Pynnes.
1593. Brief Note Obs. Fish-Days, 6. Net-makers, Saile-makers,… and Vtterers of Fish, maintained chiefly by fishing.
1653. Ordin. Contin. Excise, 17 March, 110. For all Spirits…, upon every Gallon, to bee paid by the Utterer and Seller thereof, one shilling.
b. One who utters counterfeit coin, forged notes, etc.
1731. Flying Post, 24 June, 2/1. The Utterer of the forged Bank-notes.
1796. Colquhoun, Police Metropolis, 107. This sort of counterfeit coinage is … the least profitable to the Dealer; who … disposes of it to the utterers, vulgarly called Smashers.
1859. H. Kingsley, G. Hamlyn, xiii. We could lay our hands on the utterer of the [forged] cheques at any moment.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, II. 241. Coiners and utterers of base money.
1887. Pall Mall G., 19 March, 3/2. The coiners manufacture, and the utterers buy and distribute.
2. One who utters, speaks, or expresses in language.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XII. (Percy Soc.), 47. Whan the utterer, wythout impediment,… Dothe his tale unto them tretably.
1567. Drant, Horace, Ep., To Rdr. *iiij. To be able vtterers of the gospell.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., II. iv. § 1. Things are made credible, either by the knowne Condition and qualitie of the Vtterer, or [etc.].
1613. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. ii. 35. Barre I those lips? fit to be th’ vttrers, when The heauens would parly with the chiefe of men.
1672. Dryden, Assignation, III. i. For Beatrix, she’s a meer Utterer of Yes and No.
1785. Holcroft, Tales of Castle (ed. 2), I. 69. Falsehood … sooner or later … brings dishonour on its utterer.
1841. S. Warren, Ten Thousand a Year, II. iv. A single successful speech … opens before its utterer the shining doors of fashion.
1846. Maurice, Relig. World, II. ii. (1861), 170. He feels and confesses himself to be only a reflection of the divine Light, an utterer of the divine Voice.
1893. Liddon, Life Pusey, I. iv. 84. The utterer of maxims … useful to bear in mind.
† b. One who discloses, reveals, declares, or publishes. Obs.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Rom., 18. The lawe is not authour of synne, but the vtterer and apeacher therof.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 101. That holy spyrit (vtterer of all truthe).
1587. Holinshed, Chron. (ed. 2), III. 1132/1. The vtterer of which conspiracie was one White.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 25. Vtterers of secrets he from thence debard.
