committer
nounEtymology From commit + -er.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
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Obsolete A fornicator.
- 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.1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore:
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Obsolete A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
- 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 commits1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: