productor

plural productors

1. Synonym of producer.

   The thoughts of men are the productors of all iniquity, the common parents of all prophaness.

   1655, John Bisco, The Grand Triall of True Conversion. Or, Sanctifying Grace Appearing and Acting First and Chiefly in the Thoughts.: A Treatise Wherein These Two Mysteries Are Opened. […], London: […] M.S. for G. Evesden, page 63

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   ’Twas Tarlton whose great spleene and working braine / Was the productor of this monster first, / Who for some priuat wrong he did sustaine, / An inward hate, and bosome treason nurst, / Against his Prince, which afterwards did burst / Into these open flames from whence did grow, / As hatefull Ills as euer age could show.

   1628, [Francis Hubert], The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second, King of England Together with the Downefall of the Two Vnfortunate Fauorits, Gauestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Poëm., London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Roger Michell, page 103

   For the firſt then I offer this Argument, That if thoſe Impoſitions we lay upon Foreign Commodities, do not leſſen their Importation, Expence, or Demand here, their Prices alſo Advancing proportionably, then the Impoſition doth not affect the Productors, but the Expenders: But we find that those Merchandizes Imported, are not leſſened in their Importation, Expence, or Demand, and have not failed to reach a proportionable Advance; therefore ’tis plain, that ſuch Impositions lie wholly on the Expenders, and do not affect the Productors.

   1695, a Merchant, A Discourse of the Duties on Merchandize, More Particularly That on Sugars, Occasionally Offer’d, in Answer to a Pamphlet, Intituled, The Groans of the Plantations, &c. […], London, page 22

   But, although love may be the original productor of many co-existent passions, these arise from subsequent causes, and are never to be considered as other than collateral effects, which a peculiarity of circumstances alone can produce, and which a fortuitous change may increase or annul.

   1811 October 14, “Charltoniana. On Love.”, in The Washingtonian, volume II, number 65, Windsor, Vt.

   This somewhat paradoxical circumstance—and all the farmers expenses were shown to be strictly analogous, was fully accounted for by the taxes on the articles consumed by all workmen and labourers from the mines to the farm-yard; including, of necessity, the productors of the tools which their workmen employ.

   1836 January 1, “Romford Agricultural Association”, in The Essex Standard; and Colchester, Chelmsford, Maldon, Harwich Manningtree, Witham, Halsted, Braintree, Romford, Sudbury, Hedingham, Coggeshall, Bishop’s-Stortford, Dunmow, Saffron-Walden, Southend, and General County Advertiser, number 261, Colchester: John Taylor, Jun.; Chelmsford: Henry Thomas Biddell

   Apart from meals, it is a destroyer of arteries and a productor of sclerosis of the connective tissues throughout the body.

   1903, Proceedings of the Annual Sessions of the National Fraternal Congress, page 174

   Synonyms: producer