respector

English

Etymology

From respect +‎ -or.

Noun

respector (plural respectors)

1. Alternative form of respecter.
   • 1870 August 16, “Petition for Amendment of Licensed Victuallers Act”, in Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia; with Copies of Documents Ordered to be Printed. 1870-71., volume III, Adelaide: […] W. C. Cox, […], published 1871:

     Your petitioners would respectfully desire to impress upon the notice of your Honorable House the baneful effect of that permission upon the young and thoughtless; presenting, as it does, a powerful, and in very many instances, an irresistible inducement to drunkenness and riot, subversive of peace and order, most grievous and offensive to the respectors of that Holy Day.

   • 1882, “Notes and Queries”, in David W[endel] Yandell, Theophilus Parvin, editors, The American Practitioner: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume XXVI, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton and Company; Indianapolis, Ind.: Cathcart & Cleland, pages 377–378:

     The reason of this is that in Russia every body smokes, and provision is made accordingly. Save the church, no place is here sacred from the weed. The papyros is no respector of domestic sanctities.

   • 2007, Michael Bertiaux, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook, expanded edition, San Francisco, Calif., Newburyport, Mass.: Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 156:

     Always remember the qualities of a student of this oracle, also, which are: You will always 1. Be a respector of the ancient traditions of your people. 2. Be devoted to the Gods and to all of the forms of their manifestation. 3. Be a respector of the priesthood as the mediation power between the Gods of the Universe and the people of the earth.

Anagrams

• presector, receptors

Latin

Verb

respector

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of respectō

References

• respector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• respector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• respector in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016