1. One who goes or comes into.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 42. Those dreadfull flames … That erst all entrers wont [v.r. won] so cruelly to scorch.
a. 1617. Hieron, Wks. (1619), I. 11. The entrers into this gate of life.
1760. J. Scott, Elegy, iv. (1786), 45. The hope-flushed ent’rer on the stage of life.
1858. R. S. Surtees, Ask Mamma, v. 16. On went the vehicle, leaving the enterer to settle into a seat by its shaking.
† 2. One who is being initiated. Obs.
1565. Jewel, Def. Apol. (1611), 147. Beginners, or Enterers of the Faith, called Catechumeni.
1612. Brinsley, Lud. Lit., iii. 18. If any require any other little booke meet to enter children; the Schoole of Vertue is one of the principall, and easiest for the first enterers.
3. One who ‘enters’ for a race, etc.
1746. Brit. Mag., 48. A constant Enterer at New-market Races.
