contributor (kon tri but or)

[= F. con tri but eur = It. con tri but ore, but or, cifically, one who furnishes literary material to a journal or magazine, or other joint literary work.-21. One who pays tribute; a tributary. Himselfe as rich in all his Equipage as any Prince in Christen do me, and yet a Contributor to the Turke. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 45. contributory (kon-trib'u-to-ri), a. and n. [ The collecting of a most perfect and general library, wherein whatsoever the wit of man hath heretofore committed to books of worth may be made contributory to your wisdom. Bacon , in Spedding, I. 335. I do not pretend that no one was contributory to a subsidy who did not po e a vote. Hallam . It should not be a ground of offence to any school of thinkers, that Darwin ism, whilst leaving them free scope, cannot be made actually contributory to the support of their particular tenets. E. R. Lankester , Degeneration, p. 69. There is not a single beauty in the piece to which the invention must not contribute . Pope , Pref. to Iliad. Both the poets you mention have equally contributed to introduce a false taste into their respective countries. Goldsmith, Vicar, viii.