单词 | discutant |
释义 | discutantn.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine resolving or dispersing resolutivea1400 resolver?a1450 digester1578 discussive1583 discutient1585 discusser1617 resolvent1676 incider1722 incisive1726 incident1753 discutant1817 1817 J. H. Steel Anal. Mineral Waters Saratoga & Ballston 72 Excepting as a source of cleanliness, (which may be found in any other water) it possesses no very important properties as a discutant. 1831 P. Porteus Civil Campaigns Old Grey 47 A pair of clouted, tacketed, cuddy-heeled shoon, that had never undergone a discutant of Day and Martin's renovating liquid. 2. A person who discusses something; a participant in a discussion; = discussant n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] > person engaged in mooterOE arguer1377 discusser?1546 canvasser1599 argumentator1635 discursist1645 motionist1650 tongue-fencer1675 argufier1805 discussionist1833 discutant1847 discussant1855 ventilator1891 1847 T. Sedgwick Treat. Meas. Damages x. 303 No small portion of it is devoted to refuting other glossators and discutants of similar questions. 1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 166 The contrast between the half-frank discutant and the unctuous but immoral dignitary discussed. 1922 Med. Standard Aug. 10/1 One of the discutants declared that any table..should be submitted to a competent group of lawyers. 1992 B. Sewell in Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 Nov. 26 My female discutants upon the matter proposed equivalents..in the hats and maquillage of Barbara Cartland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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