enterer

Noun

enterer (plural enterers)

1. One who enters.
   • When ye come to the bottome, there againe openeth an other Caue, woorthy to be spoken of for other things. It maketh the enterers into it afraide with the din of Timbrels, which make a gastly and great ratling within.1585, Arthur Golding (translator), The Worke of Pomponius Mela, the Cosmographer, concerninge the Situation of the World, London: Thomas Hacket, Book 1, Chapter 13, “Of Cilicia,” p. 23
   • Who dreams of Nature Free from Nature’s Strife?
     The Hope-flush’d Ent’rer on the Stage of Life,
     The Youth to Knowledge unchastis’d by Woe!1760, John Scott, “Elegy Written at the Approach of Winter” in Four Elegies: Descriptive and Moral, London: J. Buckland et al., p. 20, (cited by Anna Seward in a letter to Mrs Hayley dated 27 July...