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vanquisher|ˈvæŋkwɪʃə(r)|
Forms: α. 5 Sc. vencusour, 6 vanquysser, Sc. -quisser, venquesair, vinquiesser. β. 5 vaynquyssheur, -our, 6 venquesshor, vanquysher, 6– vanquisher.
[f. as prec.]
A conqueror, subduer.
α1456[see prec.]. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xv. 40 Yf it fortunyd that the vanquysser sle hes enymye. 1549Compl. Scot. xvii. 149 The victoree is ioyful quhen the enemeis are venqueist vitht out domage to the venquesair. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 8 That he mycht declair him self vinquiesser ouir death and sathan. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 302 A certane ȝoung man,..the principal vanquisser of Cam.
β1474Caxton Chesse iii. vii, In suffryng hym thou shalt be his vaynquysshour. 1490― Eneydos xi. 42 God forbede that it may be sayd of Eneas,..vaynquyssheur of grete bataylles [etc.]. a1513Fabyan Chron. ii. (1811) 20 Dunwallo..was venquesshor of y⊇ other Dukes or rulers. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 441 The Saints..are victorers and vanquishers, howsoeuer they are oppressed. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Gt. Eater Kent 11 This inuincible ale victoriously vanquished the vanquisher. 1652Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 83 This superbe Vanquisher receiving the Trophies and the Laurels. 1724Richers Hist. Roy. Geneal. Spain 266 The Castle of Zamora soon after surrender'd to the vanquisher. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 400 note, Combats, wherein they were sometimes the vanquishers, and sometimes the vanquished. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm., Gen. xxxii. 27 The secret of his power with his friendly vanquisher. |