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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Debtor \Debt"or\, n. [OE. dettur, dettour, OF detor, detur,
detour, F. d['e]biteur, fr L. debitor, fr debere to owe.
See {Debt}.]
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 --Shak.
In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his
creditor. --Mitford.
Debtors for our lives to you --Tennyson.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
debtor
n : someone who owes money [ant: {creditor}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Debtor
Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and
creditor are laid down in the Scriptures.
(1.) The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor
what he could most easily dispense with (Deut. 24:10, 11).
(2.) A mill, or millstone, or upper garment, when given as a
pledge, could not be kept over night (Ex. 22:26, 27).
(3.) A debt could not be exacted during the Sabbatic year
(Deut. 15:1-15).
For other laws bearing on this relation see Lev. 25:14, 32,
39; Matt. 18:25, 34.
(4.) A surety was liable in the same way as the original
debtor (Prov. 11:15; 17:18).
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