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One who aims, directs, or points.

One who acclaims.

One who claims; a claimant.

One who declaims; an haranguer.

One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.

One who exclaims.

One who proclaims.

One who reclaims.

One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.

A declaimer. [R.]

A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God. Denial of one's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.

One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.

A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame. Shak.

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.

One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [Used humorously or in contempt.] G. Eliot.

y of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities of the other. I. Taylor.