devotor

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēvōtor.

Noun

devotor (plural devotors)

1. (obsolete) A worshipper; someone given to devotion.
   • 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto IX. The Temptation. Stanza 123.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC, page 146, column 1:

     This done: His ſacred Hand He lifted up, / And round about on his Devotor's dealt / His bounteous bleſſing.

References

• “devotor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• overdot