[f. FRAME v. + -ER1.] One who frames; a maker, contriver, inventor. Also, one who frames a picture, etc.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 41. I maruell what these framers of new Goddes do meane, that whyle they confesse Chryste to be true God, yet they forth with exclude hym from the Godhead of hys Father.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, IV. vi. (1614), 367. It is the Minde of the minde which is framer of the fierie world.
1690. Locke, Govt., II. xiii. (Rtldg.), 156. It not being possible that the first framers of the government should, by any foresight, be so much masters of future events as to be able to prefix so just periods of return and duration to the assemblies of the legislative, in all times to come, that might exactly answer all the exigencies of the commonwealth.
1741. Monro, Anat. Nerves (ed. 3), 16. The Framers of this Objection.
1796. Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), I. Preface, p. xii. Of the many excellent disciples formed by Mr. Werner, Leske, the framer of the present collection, was one of the earliest and most eminent.
1827. Keble, Chr. Y., Evening, ix.
| Thou Framer of the light and dark, | |
| Steer through the tempest Thine own ark. |
1864. A. J. Horwood, Yearbks., 32 & 33 Edw. I., Pref. 34. The framer of the Latin version translated from the French form.
1870. Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 315. In these desultory notes I desire only to guide the attention to what seems worthiest of notice, without more form of order than has been given by the framers and hangers; taking men and schools as they come to hand, giving precedence and prominence only to the more precious and significant.
