committer
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English
Etymology
Noun
committer (plural committers)
- (computing) A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC:
- 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