单词 | assaulter |
释义 | assaultern. One who assaults, an attacker or assailant. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] assailera1400 assailant1523 assaulter1548 setter-on1569 aggressor1585 onsetter1588 offendent1646 attacker1664 inundator1794 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by some hostile or injurious agency > that which assailant1781 assaulter1796 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxxiijv The assaulters to deuise, all maner of engynes for the assaultyng. 1566 J. Knox Hist. Reformation in Wks. (1846) I. 212 And receaved the first assaultairis upon the pointis of thare spearis. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 34 The Troians..the assaultours with weak force vaynely repulsed. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. viii. ix. 355 Admiration is a dangerous assaulter of diffidence. 1837 T. Campbell Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 186 For we've sworn by our Country's assaulters, By the virgins they've dragg'd from our altars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1548 |
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