单词 | detractor |
释义 | detractorn. 1. a. One who detracts from another's merit or reputation by uttering things to his prejudice; a person given to detraction; a defamer, traducer, calumniator, slanderer. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > [noun] > one who detractorc1384 obtrectator?a1475 hateful1510 obtrector1570 abusera1572 derogator1580 diminisher1601 disparager1611 substractora1616 mincer1619 undervaluer1651 decrier1698 subtractor1740 extenuator1751 crier1767 depreciator1799 vilipender1832 belittler1876 hatemonger1916 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. i. 30 Detractouris, or opyn bacbyteris, hateful to God. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 70 They ben..ryght mordent and bitynge detractours. 1537 Inst. Christen Man f. 74v The detractour is not glad to tell, but to hym, that is glad to here. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 7 To confound ignorant detrakkers. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 161/1 A malicious detractor of Gregorye. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iv. 286 Instead of fauourers he shall haue detracters. 1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 147 You will not suffer your selfe to be perswaded by the reports of detractors. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xxi. 577 That which a Friend would excuse..or Wink at..the Detractor publishes without sparing or Reserve. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Detracter. 1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 51 Every fashion has its detractors. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 281 The detractor preys on his brother's flesh. ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres iii, in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 59 Vaine enuious detractor from the good. a1610 J. Healey Life Epictetus in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) sig. A5v Lucian..a perpetual detractor from all the Philosophers. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 141 in Justice Vindicated If Sabinianus were so malitious a detractor from the works of St. Gregory. 1829 W. S. Landor Wks. (1868) I. 160/2 It exhibits him as a detractor from Shakspeare. 2. Anatomy. A depressor n. muscle. [prop. modern Latin] ? Obsolete. ΚΠ 1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) (at cited word) 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Detractor..a muscle whose office it is to draw down the part to which it is attached. 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Detractor..old name for a muscle whose office is to draw the part to which it is attached away from some other part. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1384 |
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