arch. [f. ANIMADVERT v. + -ER1.]
1. One who animadverts; a censurer, fault-finder, unfavorable critic or commentator.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect. (1851), 267. Therefore the Animadverter haunts Playhouses and Bordelloes.
1714. Nelson, Script. Doctr. Trin., Pref. 11. I was thus invited by your and my animadverter … to defend Bishop Bull and myself.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., Pref. Such of these animadverters as have fallen within the author’s notice.
† 2. An inflicter of chastisement, a chastiser. Obs.
a. 1716. South, Serm., VIII. 279. God is … a severe animadverter upon such as presume to partake of those mysteries, without such a preparation.
