单词 | conquestor |
释义 | † conquestorn. Obsolete. a. = conqueror n.As a surname, often used as equivalent to Magnus, ‘Great’: e.g. Alexander, Charles, William the Great, or Conquestor. ΚΠ a1491 J. Rossi Hist. Reg. Angl. (1716) 118 Per Alexandrum Magnum et alios Conquestores.] a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxix. f. ciiiv Takyng example of Charlys the Conquestour. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 63 Vrangus conquestours..hes be thair tyranny inuadit vthir cuntrays. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 319v In the which the conquestours had hytherto neuer good successe. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 57 King Robert Bruise, the great conquestor. b. Applied to William I of England, the Conqueror. [Chiefly in Latin.] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > victor or conqueror > [noun] masterc1230 conqueror1307 victora1340 overcomerc1350 scomfitera1400 vanquisher1474 vainquer1481 conquestora1513 dauntera1522 overwhelmera1522 discomfiter1528 overwinner1535 cock1542 victorer1553 triumphant1562 triumphera1569 vanquer1570 Tamerlane?1572 defeater1582 vanqueror1583 triumphator1611 conquesor1641 conquestora1670 debellator1713 reconqueror1777 subjugator1795 conquistador1830 1100–40 Ordericus Vitalis 603 A Guillelmus Magnus id est Conquæstor rex Anglorum. c1325 N. Trivet Ann. (1845) 4 Henricus primus..Willelmi, qui Conquisitor erat, filius. c1450 J. Lydgate Verses on Kings in Hist. Coll. (Camd. Soc. 1876) 49 (heading) Wyllelmus Conquestor. a1491 J. Rossi Hist. Reg. Angl. (1716) 106 Rex Willielmus conquestor post conquestum cum obsidibus de Anglicis in Normanniam transmeavit.] a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 108 In the reign of our William Conquestor. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xiii. 288 I have a certain indestructible regard for Willelmus Conquestor.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1513 |
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