[f. CONSIDER + -ER1; cf. OF. considéreur (15th c.).] One who considers: a. with the eyes; b. with the mind.
a. c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 478. Open ynowȝ to ech considerer.
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1653), 659. All the beholders and considerers of this seldom seen combate.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl. (1675), 66. If … our considerer chance to take notice how thick ’tis set with Leaves.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. IV. i. (1852), 585. More of the smaller stars may be seen by our considerers than in many other places.
b. 1570. Ascham, Scholem., II. (Arb.), 154. Salust … requireth a learned Reader, and a right considerer of him.
1672. Newton, in Phil. Trans., VII. 5084. At the perusal of the considerations … I find the Considerer somewhat more concern’d for an Hypothesis, than I expected.
a. 1713. Ellwood, Autobiog. (1765), 412. A superficial Considerer of what he reads.
1870. M. Conway, Earthw. Pilgr., xxi. 249. The dishonour which the Churches have brought upon these words is a confession that they have found that the ‘considerer’ of their faith rarely ends in accepting it.
