单词 | extortioner |
释义 | extortionern. One who practises or is given to extortion. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who wringera1300 askera1325 extortionerc1375 exactor1382 scaffer?a1513 shaver1534 caterpillar1541 bloodsucker?1555 suck-purse1586 griper1587 extortor1590 exacter1596 extorter1605 barathrum1609 wreather1648 shark1713 vampire1741 bleeder1846 flayer1865 extortionist1885 Shylock1894 c1375 Pains of Hell 37 in Old Eng. Misc. App. ii. 211 Þese were..Extorcioners. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1859) iv. xxix. 61 They done none execucion vpon extorcioners, ne tyrauntes. 1484 Richard III in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 162 Many been knowen for open murdrers, advowters, and extortioners. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMMviiv The vsurar, the thefe, and the extorcionar. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. v. 46 Some covetous extortioner..buyes up the whole lading of the ship. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xiii. §1 The most determined extortioner in office has some bridle and some restraint. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 207 To purge the city of the vile informers and extortioners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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