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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

dettur

dettour

, OF.

detor

detur

detour

, F.

débiteur

, fr. L.

debitor

, fr.

debere

to owe. See

One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; – correlative to creditor.

[I ’ll] bring your latter hazard back again,
And thankfully rest

debtor

for the first.

Shakespeare

In Athens an insolvent

debtor

became slave to his creditor.

Mitford.

Debtors

for our lives to you.

Tennyson.

Noun.

det'tor.