autor

plural autors

1. obsoleteObsolete form of author.

   […]; in the one, eſteeming Plutarch or Homer as an hundred autors; in the other, valuing Cato or Scipio as a thouſand examples.

   1593, Gabriell Harvey, “To my very gentle, and liberal Frendes, M. Barnabe Barnes, M. John Thorius, M. Anthony Chewt, and every favorable Reader”, in Pierces Supererogation: or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame., London: […] Iohn Wolfe, page 5

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   Iohan Baptiſt than ſheweth a reaſon, why he ſaide, that the lord Ieſus was before him, bicauſe, ſaieth he, he was my firſt, that is to ſaye, my prince, my head, my autor, my maker.

   1558, Bartho[lomew] Traheron, An Exposition of a Parte of S. Iohannes Gospel Made in Sondrie Readinges in the English Congregation […]

   VVhereby first, note with me, the goodnes of our God toward vs, who ſeeing that we wil not shun plaies for anie dehortations of his godlie Preachers, who daie by daie in al places of greatest reſort denounce the vengeance of GOD to them, be they hie or lowe, that fauor plaies, Theaters, or plaiers, ſtirreth vp the verie Autors themſelues to inueigh against them, that we maie be ashamed any waie to allowe that, which the verie Autors do vtterlie condemne.

   1580, “Anglo-phile Eutheo to the Reader,S”, in A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theaters: […]