单词 | introductor |
释义 | introductorn. archaic. a. One who or that which introduces; an introducer. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > one who or that which introduces inbringerc1600 introductor1638 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > bringing into use > one who bringera1586 introductor1638 introducer1659 apporter1678 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 221 I should not be his worst introductor. 1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. i. 5 Institutor of the Magi, and Introductor of the Chaldaick Sciences amongst the Persians. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 300 The same canula improved..which I name introductor. 1852 N. Hawthorne Wayside in Tanglewood Tales (1879) 10 Not..that there was any real necessity for my services as introductor. b. One whose office it is to introduce persons at court; esp. introductor of ambassadors (French introducteur des ambassadeurs): see quot. 1706. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > introduction > one who introduces > specific at court introductor1662 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors v. 271 Jesaul Senhobet, who is as it were the Introductor, or Master of the Ceremonies. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 43 We were accompanied [at the French court] both going, & returning, by the Introductor of Ambassadors, & Ayd of Ceremonies. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) An Introductor of Ambassadors,..a Master of Ceremonies, that brings them to Audience in a Prince's Court. 1774 H. Swinburne in Crts. Europe Close last Cent. (1841) I. 9 About eleven, the introductors gave notice of the king's levee being ready, and so..we trudged up stairs. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) V. liii. 246 The introductor and interpreter of foreign ambassadors were the great Chiaous and the Dragoman. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 344 You must come with me immediately to the Infanta and Don Gabriel… I am to be your introductor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1638 |
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