单词 | inditer |
释义 | inditern. One who indites; one who composes or dictates a literary work, speech, or letter; an author, writer, composer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] bookerOE writerOE makerc1350 authora1382 inditera1387 pena1398 poetc1400 bookmakera1425 ditera1425 compilera1500 compositor?1533 book writer1565 penner1568 authorizera1579 bookwright1583 scribe1584 epistler1592 penman1592 scriptora1600 composer1603 book-breeder1605 comprisor?1623 volumist1641 scrivenera1660 literatist1660 knight of the quill1692 belletrist1816 scriever1825 creative writer1854 penworker1876 α. β. 1483 Cath. Angl. 195/2 An Indyter of lettirs, dictator.1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 734 Bookes of holy scripture, the indighters of which..be not knowne.1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. vi. 249 We know the inditer, though we doubt of the penman.1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxxvi. 243 You will think your ward very bold to address you by Letter; especially as she is a very poor inditer.1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xxvii. 518 Jonas Clark, the bold inditer of patriotic state papers.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 173 In his tyme Plautus Latinus, þe grete Pompeus his enditour and faire speker, Libertus þe doctour, florischeþ at Rome [L. Cujus diebus Plautus Latinus rhetor, magni Pompeii libertus, doctor Romæ claruit]. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 82 Enditours Of old cronique and eke auctours. 1483 Cath. Angl. 115/1 An Enditer, dictator, indictator. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xi. sig. Oo5v [He] presented his Letters, desiring Amphialus, that..he woulde consider that he was onely the bearer, but not the inditer. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 17 The basest and the hungriest endighter. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 142 It is the simplicity of the Heart, and not of the Head, that is the best Enditer of our Petitions. 1717 J. Fox Wanderer (1718) 46 I could hardly with-hold my Compassion from the fair Endicter [of the Fiction]. 1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 35 215 This Memoir..must have had Joseph for its main compiler, enditer, or author. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 47 The feeling enditer of Sympathy's tale. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1387 |
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