[f. FORBID v. + -ER1.] One who forbids.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr. V. ii. 492. Suche forbeders whiche wolden forbede wedding and forbede eting of certein metis.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 253. A forbydder of the trybute to be payed to Cesar.
1643. Milton, Divorce, II. xx. (1644), 73. The Papists who are the strictest forbidders of divorce, are the easiest libertines to admit of grossest uncleannesse; as if they had a designe by making wedlock a supportlesse yoke, to violate it most, under colour of preserving it most inviolable.
1849. Curzon, Visits Monast. i. 10. There is another attendant upon public men, who is of inferior rank, and is called a yassakji, or forbidder.
