book-answerer

English

Noun

book-answerer (plural book-answerers)

  1. (obsolete) A critic.
    • 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World: Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […] (Parsons’s Select British Classics), volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[ohn] Parsons, […], published 1794, →OCLC:
      If he has much money, he may buy reputation from your book-answerers, as well as a monument from the guardians of the temple.

References
  • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary), volume 1
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