[f. EXTOL + -ER1.] One who extols (see EXTOL 2 a, 3).
a. 1626. Bacon, Charge Sess. Verge (1662), 8. Extollers of the Pope’s Supremacy.
1684. trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, xviii. 60. The worst … things never want their extollers.
1755. in Johnson. Hence in mod. Dicts.
