subs. (old).—A beggar in the character of a decayed gentleman.
1703. WARD, The London Spy, pt. I., p. 7. He is one of those gentile [? genteel] Mumpers, we call CADATERS; he goes a Circuit round England once a year, and under Pretence of a decay’d gentleman, gets both Money and Entertainment at every good House he comes at.
ed. 1760. T. BROWN, Works, II., 179. You … sot away your time in Mongo’s fumitory, among a parcel of old smoak-dry CADATORS.
