construer

"Person" is by definition an inter-face, a relational construct and a construer of relationships.

What Is Good? James F. McGrath 2009

He made three steps up to the construer, and gave him a good box on the ear.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Of course Tom couldn't object to this, as, was it not simply lying there to be appealed to in case the sentence should prove too hard altogether for the construer?

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

If I could justly estimate the art of piano-playing, the construer of that rollicking fantasia had creditably mastered the secrets of the keyboard.

Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

Such a judge is deserving of all honor; and all honor can not be paid to this wise and fearless judge if we permit the growth of an absurd convention which would forbid any criticism of the judge of another type, who shows himself timid in the presence of arrogant disorder, or who on insufficient grounds grants an injunction that does grave injustice, or who in his capacity as a construer, and therefore in part a maker, of the law, in flagrant fashion thwarts the cause of decent government.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

Such a judge is deserving of all honor; and all honor can not be paid to this wise and fearless judge if we permit the growth of an absurd convention which would forbid any criticism of the judge of another type, who shows himself timid in the presence of arrogant disorder, or who on insufficient grounds grants an injunction that does grave injustice, or who in his capacity as a construer, and therefore in part a maker, of the law, in flagrant fashion thwarts the cause of decent government.

State of the Union Address Theodore Roosevelt 1888