单词 | decliner |
释义 | declinern. One who or that which declines. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > [noun] > falling away from duty > one who shrinker1554 recreant1570 decliner1601 lapser1695 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 287 Back-sliders, decliners, and cold Christians. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 193 Censured as decliners or erroneous. a1688 J. Renwick Choice Coll. (1776) iv. 44 All that join with decliners in an ill time. 2. One who refuses or waives; in Scots Law, one who declines the jurisdiction of a judge or court. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > one who refuses refuser1474 nay-sayer1552 declinator1606 decliner1639 no man1930 1639 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 162 A chief declyner of the Assemblie. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1633 (1955) II. 12 My Father..(who was one of the greatest decliners of it [sc. vanity] in the world). 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lvi. 269 Don't..be so very melancholy a decliner, as to prefer a shroud, when the matter you wish for is in your power. 3. Dialling. A plane which (or a dial whose plane) ‘declines’ or deviates from the meridian or prime vertical, and therefore does not pass through any of the four cardinal points. ΚΠ 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xvi. 25 For these East Recliners be in very deed South Decliners to those that live 90 deg. from us Northward or Southward.] 1684 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. (ed. 3) vii. vi. 118 Direct Dials have their Poles in the Meridian or prime Vertical, Decliners have their Poles in some other Azimuth. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 311 Of Decliners there are infinite; and yet may be reduced into..1. The South Erect Plane, declining more or less towards the East or West. 2. The North Erect Plane, declining more or less towards the East or West. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1601 |
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