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beginner|bɪˈgɪnə(r)|
[f. begin v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who begins; an originator, founder.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 436 Blessed bygynner of vch a grace. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cxxxvii. 117 Of the whiche abbay he was begynner and foundour. 1547Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr. 1564) x. v, The most gracious and mighty beginner is God, which in the beginning created the world. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. i. 146 Where are the vile beginners of this Fray? 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 49 All the beginners of dynasties. 1863Bright Amer., Sp. 16 June 130 The South, which was the beginner of the war.
2. spec.
a. One beginning to learn; a novice, a tyro.
1470–85Malory Arthur ii. xlv. (1634) 367 But young beginners. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 156 b, Suche that be vnlerned in religyon..as nouyces or yonge begynners. 1601Holland Pliny viii. xlviii. (R.) New beginners (namely, young souldiours, barristers, and fresh brides). 1780Sir J. Reynolds Disc. vii. (R.) The very enumeration of its kinds is enough to frighten a beginner. 1807Byron Granta xx, A band of raw beginners. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 139 For the use of the young beginner.
b. Phr. beginner's luck: the good luck supposed to attend a novice at betting, games, etc.
1897Kipling Capt. Cour. iii. 55 ‘Beginner's luck,’ said Dan...‘He's all of a hundred [sc. pounds, in weight].’ 1902A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns x. 227 ‘You have covered yourself with glory.’..‘How?’ ‘By not being ill.’ ‘That's always the beginner's luck.’ 1966J. Potts Footsteps on Stairs ix. 115 Beginner's luck. It went smooth as silk all the way.
†3. He who or that which goes or comes first, or takes the lead. Obs.
c1613Rowlands More Knaues 35 Being set to dinner, A legge of mutton was the first beginner. Next he deuoured vp a loyne of veale.
4. Arch. The lower part of a mullion worked on the stone forming the sill.
1886Willis & Clark Cambridge II. 514 The mullions of the four-light window..do not correspond with the ‘beginners’ on the sill. |