Also 8 -er. [a. L. æstimātor, agent-n. f. æstimāre: see ESTIMATE v. and -OR.] One who estimates.
a. 1665. J. Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit (1867), 406. Our Saviour … was the best estimator concerning matters of profit.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 363. We are very bad estimaters of happiness.
1861. Lond. Rev., 20 April, 434/2. They are by no means the keenest estimators.
