Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A preacher.
  • noun A common-councilman; a freeman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An haranguer of the people; a preacher.
  • noun (Old Law), obsolete A common councilman.

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  • noun obsolete A haranguer of the people; a preacher.
  • noun obsolete A common councilman.

Etymologies

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Latin

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Examples

  • Church, when not taken for a house, signifieth the same that ecclesia signified in the Grecian Commonwealths; that is to say, a congregation, or an assembly of citizens, called forth to hear the magistrate speak unto them; and which in the Commonwealth of Rome was called concio, as he that spake was called ecclesiastes, and concionator.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Rats! bullowed the Mookse most telesphorously, the concionator, and the sissymusses and the zozzymusses in their ro — benhauses quailed to hear his tardeynois at all for you cannot wake a silken nouse out of a hoarse oar.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Alter ver� ille extraneus Episcopus siue concionator, quem

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Alter verò ille extraneus Episcopus siue concionator, quem

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Charterhouse of Cantave near Juliers, where, according to Hartzheim, he was also preacher (concionator) to the Court of William, Duke of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Johannes Utenhovius, wrote to the Zurich Protestant, Bullinger, to the effect that a certain vir bonus, Scotus natione (a good man and a Scot), a preacher (concionator), of the Duke of Northumberland, had delivered a sermon before the King and Council, “in which he freely inveighed against the Anglican custom of kneeling at the Lord's Supper.”

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • Church, when not taken for a house, signifieth the same that ecclesia signified in the Grecian Commonwealths; that is to say, a congregation, or an assembly of citizens, called forth to hear the magistrate speak unto them; and which in the Commonwealth of Rome was called concio, as he that spake was called ecclesiastes, and concionator.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • Alter verò ille extraneus Episcopus siue concionator, quem Thangbrandt nuncupauere, anno 997. in Islandiam primùm venit.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • a preacher (concionator), of the Duke of Northumberland, had delivered a sermon before the King and Council, "in which he freely inveighed against the Anglican custom of kneeling at the Lord's Supper."

    John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

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