subreader
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
subreader (plural subreaders)
- (law, UK, archaic) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
- 1819, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North:
- When his lordship was reader, he made him his subreader, which shewed him to the society, and to men of his profession
References[edit]
- “subreader”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.