单词 | awaiter |
释义 | awaitern. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile lying in wait > one who awaiterc1374 waiterc1430 waylayer1565 lier1583 wait-layer1600 ambusher1606 ambuscader1677 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. iii. 121 Yif he be a preue awaitour. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xx. f. 20 The subtile awaiters to haue taken him in a trippe. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] thanea700 yeoman1345 squirec1380 foot followera1382 handservanta1382 servitora1382 ministera1384 servera1425 squire of (or for) the body (or household)1450 attender1461 waitera1483 awaiter1495 tender?a1505 waiting-man1518 satellite?1520 attendant1555 sitter-byc1555 pediseque1606 asseclist?1607 tendant1614 assecle1616 fewterera1625 escudero1631 peon1638 wait1652 under spur-leather1685 body servant1689 slavey1819 tindal1859 maid-attendant1896 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. clxxx. sig. V.vii/1 A vynyerde is besyly tylthed... And is lefte in wynter wythout keper or awayter [a1398 BL Add. wiþouten warde and waytynge]. 1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng (longer ed.) f. cl The kynges awayters were in coates of whyte and grene. 3. One who awaits or waits for. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1374 |
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