单词 | finder-up |
释义 | > as lemmasfinder-up C1. With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of find, as finder-out, †finder-up. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > creator or inventor craftsmana1382 feigner1382 finderc1384 finder-upc1425 engineer?a1513 finder-out1534 inventor1555 conceiver1581 conceiter1603 conceitist1628 commenter1645 ideas man1845 think-man1967 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [noun] > one who finds or discovers finderc1384 discoverer1576 founder1577 finder-outa1616 repertor1650 ferreter1863 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 6043 (MED) Olde Calchas..fynder-vp of tresoun and of gyle. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 1257 He [sc. Nimrod]..was first ground off ydolatrie And fyndere up off fals relegioun. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 3888 Attreus.., off tresoun sours & well, And fyndere out off tresoun & falsnesse. 1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 106v The deuyser and fynder oute..of al my plesures. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. sig. N8v I curse the fidling finders out of Musicke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. ii. 120 Had I beene the finder-out of this Secret. View more context for this quotation 1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) Pref. sig. A5 The..first finders out of the Science. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Theorematist,..a Finder out or Producer of Theorems. 1754 G. Jeffreys tr. J. Vanière Country Farm i, in G. Jeffreys Misc. in Verse & Prose 181 I caught a Spark of this assuming mould; A finder out of Water and of Gold. 1832 W. B. Adams Rights of Morality 115 There must have been an original inventor or finder-out of the principle fire; but that did not make it his exclusive property. 1912 L. O. Howard et al. Mosquitoes N. & Central Amer. & W. Indies I. 427 They [sc. children] are quick witted, wonderfully quick sighted, and as finders-out of breeding-places they usually can not be approached. 2007 W. Landay Strangler (2012) xiv. 81 Her every day was about finding things out. She was a born finder-out. < as lemmas |
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