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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1492, 1549
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Compilar, -pylar, n. [e.m.E. compyler (1550): cf. Compilour.] A compiler, author. —1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 272/27.
Myn auctour that was the fyrst compylar of this buk 1492 Ib. 298/3. 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 16/18.
Diuerse translatours ande compilaris in ald tymys
