accepter

Noun

accepter (plural accepters)

1. A person who accepts; a taker.
   • There is no benefyte so perfect, whiche enuy can not nip: nor no benefite so skant, whiche a good accepter may not inlarge.1578, Arthur Golding, transl., The Woorke of the Excellent Philosopher Lucius Annæus Seneca Concerning Benefyting that is too say the Dooing, Receyuing, and Requyting of Good Turnes, London: John...
   • Tracey came fraught with gifts rather suited to the spirit of the donor, than that of the accepter, yet, they opened the heart of the Laird of Dornock, who listened to the avowal of Tracey’s love without repugnance; and at length promised him his sister […]1785, Sophia Lee, The Recess: or, A Tale of the Times, volume 3, London: T. Cadell, page 145
2. (obsolete) A respecter; one who views others with partiality.
   • And Petre openyde his mouth, and seide, In trewthe Y haue foundun, that God is no acceptor of persoones;1395, John Wycliffe (translator), Bible, Acts 10.34
   • But nowe the wycked Iudge, whiche corrupteth iustyce for Brybes heer he maye learne also the lesson that Moses taughte long before this tyme, ye magistrates & Iudges in the common wealth of Israell be no accepters of personnes neyther be desyreous of giftes, for they make wyse men blind, and...1549, Hugh Latimer, The Seconde Sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer whych he preached before the Kynges maiestie, London: John Day and William Seres, To the Reader
3. An acceptor; one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange.