subreader

An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.

Noun

  1. An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
    • When his lordship was reader, he made him his subreader, which shewed him to the society, and to men of his profession - 1819, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North:

Origin

From sub- + reader.

Forms

subreaders