committer

English

Etymology

    From commit +‎ -er.

    Noun

    committer (plural committers)

    1. (computing) A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
    2. (obsolete) A fornicator.
      • 1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore:
        The ſin of many men Is within you, and thus much I ſuppose
        That if all committers stood in ranke,
        They'd make a lane […] <br<And with their spaces reach from hence to hell.
    3. (obsolete) A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
      • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
        For some here affirm, that Sin is said to be the Punishment of Sin, because in most sinful Actions, the Committer of them is really a Sufferer in and by the very Sin which he commits
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