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Definition of Derivers
1. deriver [n] - See also: deriver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Derivers
Literary usage of Derivers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke (1867)
"... "dispositions made to capture," "deriving material advantages," when the
derivers were running like scared deer, it is hard to comprehend how even such ..."
2. The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1606-1623 A. D.: As Told by Themselves by Edward Arber (1897)
"... His Majesty as they ought: therefore he durst not partake with them, nor the
derivers of their Offices from them, in the proper works of their Offices. ..."
3. History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 by William Bradford, Massachusetts Historical Society (1912)
"... he durst not partake with them, nor the derivers of their offices from them,
in the proper works of their offices." In the preface he states of his own ..."
4. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"... because as the derivers say, the hills doe not move, although some, eyther by
miracle or by some accident in the earth have moved ..."
5. Forty Years in a Moorland Parish: Reminiscences and Researches in Danby in by John Christopher Atkinson (1891)
"But just as it has begun to dawn on the minds of a few among the great host of
derivers of place-names that the only safe method is the historic method, ..."
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