engrosser
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The engrosser was looked upon as the natural enemy of the poor; and the power of the trading class was justly reckoned so great, that in cases of doubt prices were always fixed low rather than high.
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- One who takes, or gets control of, the whole; a monopolizer; specifically, a monopolizer of commodities or a commodity of trade or business. A new sort of engrossers, or forestallers, having the feeding and supplying this numerous body of workmen in the woollen manufactures out of their warehouses, set the price upon the poor landholder. Locke. Lord Bolingbroke tells us, that “we have lost the spirit of our Constitution; and therefore we bear, from little engrossers of delegated power, that which our fathers would not have suffered from true proprietors of the Royal authority.” V. Knox, Essays, cxix.
- One who copies a writing in large fair characters, or in an ornamental manner.
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- He answers that there is no doubt that the words were omitted by the inattention of the engrosser--Carew Raleigh says that but one single word was wanting, which word was found notwithstanding in the paper-book, i.e. the draft--but that the word not being there, the deed is worthless, and the devil may have his way. — Sir Walter Raleigh and his Times
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The engrosser was looked upon as the natural enemy of the poor; and the power of the trading class was justly reckoned so great, that in cases of doubt prices were always fixed low rather than high.
— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching -
You should, in compassion, cease to be such an engrosser, my dear Isabel, or at least set up shop, and sell off all the goods you do not mean to keep for your own use You shall have them all," replied Miss Vere, "and the conjuror to boot, at a very easy rate No!
— The Black Dwarf -
What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 -
"Yes," replied the two copying-clerks and the engrosser, whose pens forthwith began to creak over the stamped paper, making as much noise in the office as a hundred cockchafers imprisoned by schoolboys in paper cages.
— Colonel Chabert
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