suggestor

suggestor [LL] 1 one who supplies or provides. esto solus et ~or et effector judiciorum nostrorum Egb. Pont. 98. 2 one who recommends, encourages, or incites, one who tempts (to, esp. w. ref. to Satan). superasti passione tua suggessorem peccati, qui gaudebat in prevaricatione primi hominis per lignum vetitum Egb. Pont. 113; fornicationem fugiens, quam totius immunditie ~or quibuscunque ad Deum anhelantibus exitiales ponit offendiculum Ketel J. Bev. 282; libera nos a malo, nostro pariter et a Satana malo, ‥ omnium malorum ~ore pessimo H. Reading (I) Fid. Cath. 1334C; militie irruit, hinc ~oris illecebra, inde tribulantis vesania Pull. Sent. 744A; suggestor mordet, delectans fedat Garl. Epith. I 639. 3 one who reports or proposes (fact or point of view). b one who makes a case, claim, or allegation. 1238 nec suggerat quisquam vestre discretioni quod indecens sit vestre excellentie ab episcopis citari ‥ quia hujusmodi ~or hoc agit ut Christus in episcopis spernatur Gros. Ep. 56; s1261 rex ‥ se sentiebat de falsis ~oribus deceptum Flor. Hist. II 467; 1281 nisi vos decipiant impii ~ores Peckham Ep. 199; adhibuerunt fidem verbis istius ~oris Latin Stories 72.  b 1265 si quos hujusmodi ~ores falsa predicantes ‥ inveneris RL II 283; 1442 si talia nobis casu aliquo suggesta extitissent, fuisset per nos ~oribus ipsis contra vestram magnificenciam danda fides Bekynton I 125.