resorter
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2ADJ.
frequent, medicinal
RESORTER + NOUN
digby, john
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noun
One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)
He is a frequent resorter to medicinal aids and appliance to combat old age and infirmity , but it is always God Who prescribes for him .
In Aristophanes' Wasps, Cleon loses his role as a frequent resorter to charges of conspiracy to elderly jurors, described as his ardent followers and fans, as well as to ordinary Athenians.
A frequenter.
As 'a common resorter to the houses of Popish recusants and a scoffer of goodness and good men' [i.e. Puritans] he could expect no less from the parliamentary authorities.
Furthermore, the brothel's mistress is 'bound' to this governor (60); by implication, Lysimachus is a regular 'resorter', all too familiar with the iniquitous business in hand.
One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.
[…] for this land of the north, outside of a few centers, has hardly been touched by the resorters, so vast are the uncamped and uncottaged stretches.
He describes the summer resorter as being one of the following kinds: a "roughing-it" or back-to-nature resorter; a rest-seeking resorter; a student resorter, much as those attending Bay View or Interlocken; and a fashionable resorter.
A person who runs a resort
When all has been said and done, the crucial problem of the resorter is to attract the tourist to his particular resort .
A resorter cannot continually maintain and update his facilities when interest rates eat up any and all the net the improvement would realize.
The process by which property that was previously transferred or granted to a new owner reverts or is reclaimed by the original owner or that person's heirs.
And even if the reversion is understood in such a case to be the donor and his heirs, a resorter to a stranger ought not to be understood so widely.
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3He is a frequent resorter to medicinal aids and appliance to combat old age and infirmity , but it is always God Who prescribes for him .
WiktionaryIn Aristophanes' Wasps, Cleon loses his role as a frequent resorter to charges of conspiracy to elderly jurors, described as his ardent followers and fans, as well as to ordinary Athenians.
WiktionaryHe was a "frequent resorter” to John Digby, now Lord Digby, Privy Councilor and the person the king relied on for the Spanish marriage negotiations.
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