An editor or publisher. Mr. Joseph T. Buckingham, in his ‘Specimens of Newspaper Literature,’ i. 112 n. (Boston, 1850), remarks that in most of the newspapers printed in the early part of the 18th century the word was thus used. Communications are addressed “To the author of the Courant,” “To the author of the Rehearsal,” &c. As this meaning is not noted in the N.E.D., it is no doubt American and obsolete.
