[f. ASSEMBLE v.1 + -ER1; cf. OF. assembleor, -eur, n. of agent f. assembler: see ASSEMBLE v.1] One who assembles.
1. One who brings together, collects or convenes.
1635. Person, Varieties, I. Introd. 2. The builder of cities, assembler of men.
1780. Burke, Refl. Exec., Wks. IX. 273. None of … the assemblers of the mob … have been convicted.
2. One who takes part in an assembly; e.g., a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines.
1647. Assembly-man, in Harl. Misc. (1745), V. 94/4. Yet it is some Relief to a sequestered Person to see two Assemblers snarl for his Tithes.
a. 1660. Hammond, To Cheynel, Wks. I. 193 (R.). Your confession of faith which you say shall be published by your assemblers.
1710. Shaftesb., Charac., IV. § 3 (1737), I. 148. If they can produce … Visionary Assemblers to attest a story of a Witch upon a Broomstick.
