First Reader

American  

noun

Christian Science.

1. the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.

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Etymology

Origin of First Reader

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

My first reader, then, apart from my parents.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’m not the first reader to have been struck by the passage—and by the fact that a senator of the president’s party was left guessing, just like everyone else.

From Slate

Huneven wrote a story about Ellis and showed it to her first reader, novelist Mona Simpson.

From Los Angeles Times

Cerf wrote to Babb on July 27, 1939, to say the first reader’s report on "Whose Names Are Unknown" had come back “exceptionally fine” and told her that he wanted to “read it myself.”

From Salon

Oxford University's first reader in geology, William Buckland, described the species Megalosaurus to the Geological Society on 20 February 1824.

From BBC