relate
verb (used with object)
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
relater
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a word derived from
relate.
Example Sentences
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Among the portraitures in that of Mars is the Suicide, for whom the relater, poet or knight, forgets himself in his vivid conception, and says that he saw it.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
It is a dangerous thing to accept any such statement without thorough investigation and calling upon the relater to state exactly where these things happened, and what was his course of travel.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various
He was the contemporary of Aamarsch, another relater of traditions of the first class.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various
For, though by your memory you relate every thing to me, yet as a relater you can not delight me in so high a degree.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
It is told of Ibn As-Sammak, a pious sage and "professional relater of anecdotes," that having held a discourse one day in the hearing of his slave-girl, he asked her what she thought of it.
From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
