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▪ I. stickler|ˈstɪklə(r)|
Also 6 styckler, stiklar, stickeler, 7 sticler.
[f. stickle v. + -er1. Cf. the earlier stiffler, stightler.]
1. A moderator or umpire at a tournament, a wrestling or fencing match, etc., appointed to see fair play, and to part the combatants when they have fought enough (obs. exc. s.w. dial.). Hence, † one who intervenes as a mediator between combatants or disputants.
1538Elyot Dict., Interpres,..also a styckler betwene two, whiche are at varyaunce. 1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly N iij b, Hereby it appeared that Jesus was the stickler or mediator. 1572Huloet (ed. Higins), Stickeler in games, Designator, Arbiter certaminis. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. xvii. §1. (1912) 105 Basilius the Judge appointed sticklers, and trumpets, to whom the other should obey. Ibid. §5. 109 Basilius rising himselfe [came] to parte them, the sticklers authoritie scarslie able to perswade cholerike hearers. 1602Parsons Warn-word i. 14 Receauing for his gaine the first broken head as wrangling sticlers ar wont to do. 1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 99 Theobald Earle of Bloys, that famous Stickler betweene the Kings of England and France. a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 722 He sent Octavia..to her brother Cæsar, that she might be a stickler between them. 1659Dryden Death of Oliver xi, Our former Chiefs, like Sticklers of the War, First sought t'inflame the Parties, then to poise. 1825Jennings Dial. W. Eng. 72 Stickler, a person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game. 1897Phillpotts Lying Prophets i. v. 50 You 'm like the stickler at a wras'lin' match,..you sees fair play betwixt God an' man.
Comb.1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. viii. 18 The dragon wing of night ore-spreds the earth And stickler-like the Armies seperates.
†b. fig. of things. Obs.
1582Stanyhurst æneis, etc. (Arb.) 145 Thy nose, as a stickler, toe toe long vs parteth a sunder. 1598Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex & Herts ii. 6 The Lea..continuing her most milde course as stickler betweene Essex and Middlesex. 1618Bolton Florus iii. x. (1636) 199 The tide withdrawing upon course during the skirmish, the Ocean might, as it were, seeme to have been stickler in the battell.
†c. A composer or reconciler of (strife). Cf. stickle v. 2. Obs.
1624Bp. Hall No Peace with Rome iii. Wks. (1634) 608 Those honest and good-natured men, which would needs undertake to bee the sticklers of these strifes.
†2. One who takes an active or busy part (in a contest, affair, cause, etc.); an active partisan; a (great, chief, etc.) agent, mover, or instigator.
1565J. Calfhill Answ. Treat. Crosse, Ep. to Martiall B j b, Erasmus a gret stickler in the crosse quarrell. 1619Denison Heav. Banq. 64 Andradius a principall stickler at the Councell of Trent, and a vehement defender thereof. 1643Decl. Commons (Reb. Ireland) 22 The Queen with her Romish Priests..have been principall Actours and Sticklers herein. 1663Patrick Pilgrim v. (1687) 16 [He] is generally decry'd by all parties, as no friend to Truth, because he is no great stickler about the Questions that have vexed our unhappy days. 1690C. Nesse O. & N.T. I. 30 Oleaster, that grand stickler in the Spanish Inquisition. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Heracleonites, They were so fond of these Mystic Interpretations, that Origen, tho' a Stickler that Way himself, was obliged to reproach Heracleon with his abusing Scripture by that Means.
†b. In unfavourable sense: A factious, seditious, or pragmatic contender; a wrangler, one who stirs up strife; a meddler, busybody. Obs.
1579,1643: cf. Jack-stickler s.v. Jack n.1 36. 1641 Quarles Enchyridion i. xlviii, True Religion is a Setler in a State, rather than a Stickler. 1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Wars ii. iii. (1733) 615 And for those Sticklers that Varus found to be least malicious, he order'd them to be kept in Custody. 1693Penn Some Fruits Solit. i. §531 A devout Man is one Thing, a Stickler is quite another. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Stickler, a Busie Body in Publick Business, a Promoter of Faction and Disturbance.
†3. One who fights or contends against (a person, cause, etc.); an opponent, antagonist; one who makes difficulties or raises objections. Obs.
1613Jackson Creed i. xv. 78 Diomedes (who was one of the greatest sticklers against Troy). 1718F. Hutchinson Witchcraft 63 Where they might do what they would, with⁓out being controuled by Sticklers. 1735Bp. Gibson in Fraser Life Berkeley (1871) vii. 238 The men of science..are the greatest sticklers against revealed religion. 1825Cobbett Rur. Rides 197 Sir Thomas Baring appears to have been the great stickler against Mr. Hollis. 1826Creevey in C. Papers (1903) II. 100 If a good ultra-Tory Government could be made, Canning and Huskisson must inevitably be ruined by this daring step. You never heard such language as the old sticklers apply to them. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. II. 42 There are nowhere such stiff sticklers against idolatry, at the present day, as those gentlemen.
4. With for: One who contends for, pertinaciously supports, or advocates (a cause, principle, person, party, etc.); one who insists on or stands out for (something established by rule or custom, a form, ceremony, etc.).
1644D. Featley Levites Scourge 6 A great stickler for the new Reformation. 1654Vilvain Theorem Theol. ii. 49 Dr. Ward, a stif Stickler for effectual Grace. 1660J. Davies Hist. Chas. II, 68 Nor wanted there some sticklers for his Majesty. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 61 Your sticklers for indifferency of will. 1792A. Young Trav. France 110 He is one of the most zealous sticklers for the popular cause. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iii. ii. 191 A stickler for the Senate and ‘the Forty’. 1829S. H. Cassan Bps. Bath & Wells 162 He was a stickler for the Hanover succession. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xlv, She was a great stickler for dignity and ceremonies. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair ix, Sir Pitt was a stickler for his dignity while at home. 1879Dixon Windsor I. xxiii. 241 Beaufort was no stickler for pedantic rules. 1887Poor Nellie (1888) 294 His father, who was somewhat of a stickler for etiquette. 1898G. W. E. Russell Collect. & Recoll. xxxiv. 455 Mr. Gladstone, the stiffest of sticklers for official reticence. 1901Scotsman 4 Mar. 7/5 The Great Duke was a stickler for the principle that the Sovereign is the real head of the army.
†5. A second or backer in a contest. Obs.
1672G. Thomson Let. to H. Stubbe 28 Stubbe, and the rest of the Galenical Tribe, with all their Sticklers. 1678Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 418 One of the principall parishioners and sticklers to the bishop against Oats. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. i. 14 Priests of all Religions..are the Sticklers, and clap their Hands, and cry Hulloo; setting the mad and Priest-ridden Laity at work, to fight up to the Ears in Blood for them. 1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 177 Their fathers were honest men, and sticklers to their lawful Prince. 1716Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 266 One of his great sticklers for the Degree of Master of Arts was Dr. Hudson. 1755Johnson, Stickler, a sidesman to fencers; a second to a duellist. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vi, My ambition of distinction in arms, and my love of strife..do not fight even-handed with my reason..but have their patrons and sticklers to egg them on.
▪ II. [stickler
erron. form (in Dicts.) of sticker2.] |