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单词 inditer
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inditern.

/ɪnˈdʌɪtə/
Forms: α. Middle English enditour, Middle English endytour, Middle English–1800s enditer, 1600s enditor, endighter, (1700s endicter. β. Middle English indyter, 1500s indytor, 1500s–1600s indighter, 1500s– inditer.
Etymology: Middle English (and ? Anglo-Norman) enditour (Latin type *indictātōr-em ), < endite, indite v. + agentive suffix -our, -or, passing at length into -er suffix1: compare diter n.
One who indites; one who composes or dictates a literary work, speech, or letter; an author, writer, composer.
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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.
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.
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.
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