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Quotation dates: 1557-1683
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Comprisar, -er, n. Also: comprysar, -(s)er, -or. [f. Comprise v.]
1. An appraiser, valuator. 1557 Inverness B. Rec. I. 13.
[Persons appointed] taisteris of aill … [and] comprysoris of flesche and fysche 1564 Ham. & Campsie Test. I. 21.
The foirsaidis comprysaris comprysit the hale gudis and geir inwith the hous 1576 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 28.
That na beiff be sauld … vnto the tyme that the baillies, with certan sworne comprysaris, comprysit the samin, and putt ane competent pryce thairon 1632 Peebles Gleanings 127 (see Comprise v. 4). 1673 Corshill Baron Ct. 109.
Arthure Bryce, one of the compriseris thereof, … declares the said skaith, … wes three pecks
2. An attacher or distrainer. 1621 Acts IV. 609/2.
That the compryser sall haue no farder right to the mailles … and dewties of the comprysit landis a1646 Spotisw. Practicks 54.
The compriser having poynded the defender's goods 1661 Decis. Lords G. 10.
Iames Seton, being a third compriser of certain houses in Leith 1683 Wodrow MSS. XXXVII. No. 6.
They … did delivere his cattell to the comprisers
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