[f. as prec. + -ER1.]
† 1. One who acts as arbiter in a dispute. Obs.
1598. Florio, Mezzanaro, a mediatour, an vmpier, an arbitrator, a compromiser.
a. 1654. Webster & Rowley, Cure for Cuckold, IV. i. My brother, and the other compromiser, come to take up the business.
2. One who enters into a compromise; an advocate of compromise or partial concession.
1818. Todd, Compromiser, he who makes concession.
1835. Tait’s Mag., II. 769. All others are temporizers, waiters upon occasion and opportunity, compromisers, oscillators.
1874. Morley, Compromise (1886), 216. Perhaps the compromiser shrinks … because he thinks the time has not yet come.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, IV. 75. The Minister who had seemed a daring Reformer to one generation might seem but a chilly compromiser to another.
