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Praiser

Praiser \Prais"er\, n.

  1. One who praises. ``Praisers of men.''
    --Sir P. Sidney.

  2. An appraiser; a valuator. [Obs.]
    --Sir T. North.

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praiser

n. 1 one who praises 2 (context obsolete English) an appraiser; a valuator

Usage examples of "praiser".

Father Henry deserved whatever condemnation properly falls upon the praiser of the past.

In due course we arrived at the gate of the kraal, where we found the heralds and the praisers prancing and shouting.

This done, Dingaan ordered one of his isibongos, or praisers, to run to and fro in front of the regiments and others there assembled, and proclaim that he had granted Natal to the Boers to be their property for ever, information which the Zulus received with shouts.

The dimensions of the pillar, and of the stones, were often appealed to, as a proof of the superior stature and size of old women and geese in the days of other years, by those praisers of the past who held the comfortable opinion of the gradual degeneracy of mankind.

The sun shone gracious over all his kingdom, and his little praisers were loud in every bush.

The dimensions of the pillar, and of the stones, were often appealed to, as a proof of the superior stature and size of old women and geese in the days of other years, by those praisers of the past who held the comfortable opinion of the gradual degeneracy of mankind.

It was of no use to recall the many instances where praise to the face had redounded to the everlasting honor of praiser and bepraised.

But behold others not reprovers, but praisers of the book of Genesis,-"The Spirit of God," say they, "Who by His servant Moses wrote these things, willed not that these words should be thus understood.