pandered

noun Also pan·der·er.

1. a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
2. a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others.
3. a go-between in amorous intrigues.

verb (used without object)

4. to act as a pander; cater basely: to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons.

verb (used with object)

5. to act as a pander for.

verb

1. (intr foll by to) to give gratification (to weaknesses or desires)
2. (archaic when tr) to act as a go-between in a sexual intrigue (for)

noun Also: panderer

3. a person who caters for vulgar desires, esp in order to make money
4. a person who procures a sexual partner for another; pimp

n.“arranger of sexual liaisons, one who supplies another with the means of gratifying lust,” 1520s, “procurer, pimp,” from Middle English Pandare (late 14c.), used by Chaucer (“Troylus and Cryseyde”), who borrowed it from Boccaccio (who had it in Italian form Pandaro in “Filostrato”) as name of the prince (Greek Pandaros), who procured the love of Cressida (his niece in Chaucer, his cousin in Boccaccio) for Troilus. The story and the name are medieval inventions. Spelling influenced by agent suffix -er. v.“to indulge (another), to minister to base passions,” c.1600, from pander (n.). Related: Pandered; pandering.

1. Russian-born German anatomist and pioneer embryologist. With Karl Ernst von Baer he discovered the distinct structural layers of the chick embryo.