Also 6 vexar, -or. [f. VEX v.] One who or that which vexes or annoys.
1530. Palsgr., 284/2. Vexar, a grevar, turbateur.
1552. Huloet, Vexor, animaduersor.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Psalms LXXXIX. viii. I will quaile his vexers in his sight.
1608. Topsell, Serpents, 93. Hornets … are great vexers and troublers.
1620. Rowlands, Night Raven, 34. Pray speake, had you this vexer and abuser, And were thus plagu’d as I, how would you vse her?
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 235. He was … a vexer of two Parishes with continual suits of Law.
a. 1716. Blackall, Wks. (1723), I. 45. They can’t be blessed because they are their own Vexers and Tormentors.
1788. Burke, Impeachm. W. Hastings, Wks. XIII. 59. The disgracers of government, the vexers and allicters of mankind.
