Obs. [f. CORNUTE v. after L. agent nouns.] One who cornutes; a cuckold-maker. Hence Cornutee.
1664. R. Heath, Paradoxical Assertions, 36. Or as the Spaniel who loves his Master the more for beating him, so doth not the Cornutee love the Cornutor the more for cudgelling his wife with his Flabellum or Label of generation?
a. 1675. Jordan, Poems, 2 b (T.). He that thinks every man is his wife’s suitor Defiles his bed, and proves his own cornutor.
c. 1750. (title) The Cornutor of Seventy-five.
