committer

English

Etymology

commit +‎ -er

Noun

committer (plural committers)

1. (computing) A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
2. (obsolete) A fornicator.
   • 1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore:

     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.

3. (obsolete) A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:

     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 commits