Obs. rare. [f. COMPRISE v. + -ER1: the form -or, -our, in the suffix is by association with words from Fr. or Latin.]
1. Sc. Law. One who ‘comprises’ or attaches the land or goods of another. (See COMPRISE 1.)
c. 1575. Sir J. Balfour, Practicks (1754), 40. Gif the Officiar … apprehend the said gudis and geir … and be certane comprysouris sworn to that effect, lauchfullie poindis and comprysis the samin.
1621. Sc. Acts Jas. VI., c. 6 ¶ 1. The compriser hath right to the mailes, duties, and profites of the Landes.
1673. Court Bk., in Archæol. Coll. Ayr & Wigtoun (1884), IV. 109 (Jam. Supp.). Arthure Bryce, one of the compriseris thereof, being personallie present, declares the said skaith to his judgements wes … tuentie two shilling.
2. One who composes (a treatise); an author. (See COMPRISE 7.)
1627. Feltham, Resolves, I. i. If I bee corrupted by them [idle Books], the Comprisor of them is mediately a cause of my ill.
