auctour

noun

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of author.

   “Redynge of olde auctours and ſtoryes my mooſt honorable lorde / I fynde that men in tyme paſte were of longer lyfe / and of more proſperous helth / thã they are nowe a daies.”

   “A dayly exercyſe, and experyẽce of deth / all duely corrected by the ſelfe auctour, and nowe prynted trewely. The ſayd auctour requyred me inſtantly that I ſhulde nat prynte nor ioyne any other werkes vnto his. Specially of vncertayne auctours.”

   “For among the learned auctours, ſome thinke that Heauen and earth, of whiche in the i. chapt. of Geneſis, and i. verſe it is writen, In the beginnyng God made heauen and earth, were made by God of nothyng:[…]”