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单词 maintainer
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maintainern.

Brit. /meɪnˈteɪnə/, /mənˈteɪnə/, U.S. /meɪnˈteɪnər/
Forms: Middle English mantenowr, Middle English mayntenere, Middle English mayntenor, Middle English mayntenour, Middle English mayntenoure, Middle English mayntenowre, Middle English mayntenure, Middle English maynteynour, Middle English mayntynnuer, Middle English mayntynour, Middle English maytener (transmission error), Middle English meinteinour, Middle English meyntenor, Middle English meyntenour, Middle English meyntenoure, Middle English meyntenowre, Middle English meynteynour, Middle English meyntynor, Middle English meyntynore, Middle English meyntynour, Middle English meyteyner (transmission error), Middle English–1500s mayntener, Middle English–1500s meyntener, Middle English–1500s meynteyner, 1500s maintaignar, 1500s maintayner, 1500s mainteinour, 1500s maintener, 1500s maintenour, 1500s mainteyner, 1500s mayntayner, 1500s maynteiner, 1500s maynteinour, 1500s maynteyner, 1500s–1600s mainteiner, 1500s– maintainer, 1600s mainteener, 1800s– maintainor; Scottish pre-1700 mainteaner, pre-1700 mainteener, pre-1700 mainteimar, pre-1700 mainteinar, pre-1700 mainteiner, pre-1700 maintenar, pre-1700 manetenar, pre-1700 manetenour, pre-1700 mantainer, pre-1700 manteamer, pre-1700 manteaner, pre-1700 manteinar, pre-1700 manteinare, pre-1700 manteiner, pre-1700 manteinner, pre-1700 manteinour, pre-1700 mantenair, pre-1700 mantenar, pre-1700 mantenare, pre-1700 mantenner, pre-1700 manteynar, pre-1700 manteyner, pre-1700 mayntenour, pre-1700 meintener, pre-1700 menteaner, pre-1700 menteinar, pre-1700 menteiner, pre-1700 mentenar, pre-1700 mentiner, pre-1700 1700s– maintainer.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French maintenour, mainteneor.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman maintenour, meinteneor helper, protector, abettor, maintainer (in legal use in sense 1), and Old French mainteneor, Middle French mainteneur (French mainteneur ) protector, defender (c1155), person who keeps a promise (c1470), person who supports something (1563) < maintenir maintain v. + -eor -or suffix. Compare post-classical Latin manutentor protector, also in legal use in sense 1 (from c1115 and c1320 respectively in British sources). Remodelled with -er suffix1 in late Middle English.
I. Senses applied to a person.
1. Law. A person who supports a suit in which he or she has no legally recognized interest. Cf. maintenance n. 1. Obsolete.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > illegal involvement in a suit > one who
maintainera1325
champertorc1503
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xxvii. 87 Hose wole plainen him of conspirators, of sustenors of false plaintes, of meintenours for te habbe part þerof, ant of controuurs, bargainours, þat a ben bifore þe kinge to ansuuerien to þe plaintours þoru þis writ.
1414 Rolls of Parl. IV. 60/1 Which fredam the forseide Priour and Chanons and her mayntenours..wolden byneme us.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. 78 (MED) No manere meyntenour shulde merkis bere, Ne haue lordis leuere þe lawe to apeire.
1503 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 13 Punishment of the Maintainers and Embracers of the Jurors.
1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 3 Vnlawfull maintenours embrasours and Jurours.
1635 W. Lambarde & T. Lambarde Archeion (new ed.) 188 No Sheriffe or Steward..shall suffer any Barettor, or maintainer of Quarrels, in their Countrie Courts, or other Courts.
1668 H. Rolle Abridgm. 53 Thou art a common maintainer of Suits, and a Champertor, and I will have thee thrown over the Bar next Terme.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (1896) III. xxi. 550 The maintainers of false causes, whether they were barons or lawyers, became very early the object of severe legislation.
1898 Encycl. Laws Eng. VIII. 74 The maintainor must have some special interest other than that of the public at large.
2.
a. A person who upholds, defends, guards, keeps in being, or preserves unharmed a cause, right, law, state of things, etc. Also: spec. the god whose creative power keeps the world in being.
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Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 29 (MED) Alle cristene men crieth out on this fals lawe and on the makeris and meyntenouris therof.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 146 (MED) Geffrey le fitz Pers, William dela Bruere—Þise were mayntenours to sustene þe coroun.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 186 (MED) By iugement He cruelly shuld be brought adawe..of crystene feyth as a meyntenour.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 918 Confounders of yll..Mayntenours of ryght.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Ciiijv O where be rulers, meynteyners of Iustyce.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. v. f. v Blessed are the maynteyners of peace.
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. Ma. Phi. Sidney, a special fauourer & maintainer of all kind of learning.
a1657 W. Mure Misc. Poems in Wks. (1898) I. 75 Mainteener of my lote thow art.
1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 124 A great maintainer Of our great Grand-Father's vertue, Hospitality.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. iii. 169 The Maintainers of all the different Sects in the World. View more context for this quotation
1781 S. Johnson Life Cave in Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 57 A tenacious maintainer, though not a clamorous demander of his right.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 66 She a school-mistress, a keeper of silence, a maintainer of discipline!
1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lix. 321 Polysperchon..appears as the maintainer of the rights of Hercules.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 124 The maintainer of justice..is aiming at strengthening the man.
1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 45 Mother Church..is the bulwark of society, the great maintainer of stability.
1973 J. Berryman Recovery (1974) 49 I didn't blame God for that, I just lost all personal sense of Him. No doubt about the Creator and Maintainer, and later it became quite clear to me that He made Himself available to certain men and women in terms of inspiration.
1999 V. Shiva in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business xviii. 205 In India, the turtle is considered sacred. It is one of the ten ‘avatars’ or incarnations of Vishnu, the lord of creation and maintainer.
b. A person who fosters or supports wrongdoing, sedition, false quarrels, etc. Obsolete.
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a1400 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 274 (MED) Thomas Austyn..hath ben on of the principal meyntenors of tretorie touchynge to owre lyge lord the kyng.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. 288 Mede ys euermore a meyntenour of gyle.
c1450 Form Excommunication (Claud.) in E. Peacock Myre's Instr. Parish Priests (1902) 64 (MED) Alle þat disturbulleth pes of the londe, & alle..mayteneres of Felonye.
1483 ( Pilgrimage of Soul iii. iv. 53 Ye laweours and maynteners of wrong.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxij/2 Mayntener of quarels..or other comon mysdoers.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors ix. sig. C3v Thei be maynteyners of discord for their priuate lukers sake.
1567 R. Sempill Test. & Trag. King Henrie (single sheet) Fostararis of falset..Mantenaris of murther.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iv. 74 All breeders and maintainers of sedition.
1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley v. i Nor am I..seconder, perswader, forwarder, Principall, or maintainer of this late theft.
1710 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) App. 2. 177 The Sword..Fills Towns with Ruin, fields with blood beside Tis Sloths Maintainer, And the Shield of pride.
3.
a. A person who gives aid or support to another; a defender and helper. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager
friendOE
procurera1325
fautorc1330
voweec1380
corner-stonec1384
abettor1387
vocatec1390
procurator1395
maintainer?a1400
proctora1413
supporter1426
comforter1483
factorc1503
allower1528
advancer1536
affirmer?1541
agreer1548
encourager1562
fortifierc1565
favourer1567
aim-crier1597
suffragator1606
seconder1623
countenancera1625
affectionate1628
adstipulator1646
flesher1646
fauterera1662
advocate1735
sympathizer1816
sympathista1834
advocator1837
ite1852
rooter1889
spear-carrier1960
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 3194 Þou comes to reue our socoure þat suld be our mayntenoure.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 17056 For now lesen thei her mayntenoure And alle the gode that thei owe.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 320/2 Mayntenowre, manutentor, defensor, supportator, fautor.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxx. 6 The maynteyners of the londe of Egipte shal fall.
1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 504 Thou, Lord, art my maintainer, and the holder up of my head.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 28 Seeing he acts by dependance on Him, as all the Rest do, we must compare None of them to their Maintainer.
b. A person who aids and abets another in wrongdoing or error. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > chiefly in something bad
maintainer?a1400
abetter1457
bolsterer1523
abettor1569
succentor1609
bettor1671
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 255 Edward þei cald & teld, þat he was mayntenoure, Þe robbed he all held, as a resceyuour.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 59 Heretykes..& alle here mayntenourys or fauourerys.
1495 Act II Hen. VII c. 10 §2 The mayntenours of him or theym so mysdoing.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccclvjv The counsell of Calcedonie deposed Dioscorides the maynteyner of Eutyches from his Byshoprike.
1566–7 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 497 Ane mantenar of wickit and brokin men.
1570 Act 13 Eliz. c. 2 §2 All..Aydors, Comforters, or Maynteyners of anye the said..Offendors.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 141 Maintenars and patrons of euil doars.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxii. §7. 548 The Conspiratours..had neither any mightie partakers in their fact, nor strong maintainers of their persons.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 233 in Justice Vindicated The aiders, maintainers and concealers, who shall not within twenty daies..disclose the same to some Justice of Peace.
4. (a) A person who provides for the upkeep of a place, a thing, etc.; a person who keeps a thing in repair or in working order. (b) A person who provides another with the necessaries of life; †a person who keeps a mistress (obsolete).
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provision of means of support or livelihood > one who
maintainera1450
provisora1475
provider1616
sustentationa1631
head-worker1640
support1677
breadwinner1783
family head2002
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation in being or maintenance > one who preserves in being or condition
sustenance?a1430
maintainera1450
supportera1450
founder1548
retainer1548
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > keeping mistress or lover > one who keeps a mistress
maintainera1450
keeper1676
concubinator1882
protector1905
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 351 (MED) He preyde hym so feyre, he myȝt non other, Bot grauntede for [to] be hure patrone And mayntenere of þat place.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Rr.ii Therefore wo be to the erecter, setter vp, and mainteyner of ymages in Churches and Temples.
1591 Edinb. Test. XXIII. f. 45, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Maintenar The ladie Garleis to be mentenar of the said Johne.
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered v. 17 An whoremaster and a minion maintainer.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. ii. 19 Be assur'd first Of a new mainteiner ere you cashire the old one.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 199 The Clergie, who are the chief maintainers of these Ganimedes.
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. iii. 59 Plato would not have..the People [called] Servants, but Maintainers of their Magistrates, because they give Meat, Drink, and Wages to their Kings themselves.
1870 Echo 12 Nov. Every thief his own maintainer, every prisoner his own reformer.
1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway v. 56 Behind every failure or loss of time there is a designer, maintainer or operator.
1992 Engineering News Sept. 7/3 How to motivate operators and maintainers to work as effective, problem-solving teams will be focus of attention during the workshop session.
5. A person who upholds or supports something in speech or argument; a person who contends for the truth or validity of a doctrine, assertion, tenet, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > defensive argument > exponent of
maintainerc1520
apologist1640
apologizer1660
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. 321 (margin) A man as is..a menteinar of heresye.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxxij The maynteners of that doctrine, are nother called nor hearde.
a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xxi. 151 Iacobus..was in his time a mighty inlarger of Eutiches sect, and maintainer of his opinion.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 349 He was..a principal maintainer of Protestancy.
1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 404 The Maintainers of the Immateriality of the Divine Substance were likewise divided into two Parties.
1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will iv. xii. 275 Epicurus..maintain'd no such Doctrine of Necessity, but was the greatest Maintainer of Contingence.
a1832 R. Jebb Gen. Princ. Law in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 702/1 To quiet the violent contest of two honest maintainers of contrary opinions.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 154 The conservative maintainers of the ‘status in quo’ ought to have been called upon to justify..what had actually taken place.
1890 T. W. Allies Peter's Rock 333 A maintainer of the Catholic and Apostolic faith immutilate.
6. A mine owner; a shareholder in a mine. Obsolete.
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1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Yiij I could wish that some of the Cross Carping Maintainers might try the difference of these two Airs.
1824 J. Mander Derbyshire Miners' Gloss. Maintainer, one who holds or posses[s]es a share of a Mine.
II. Senses applied to an object.
7. A thing which maintains or preserves something.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation in being or maintenance > that which
foodOE
breadc1175
sustainera1325
sustenance?a1430
maintainer1551
sustain1567
aliment?1608
alimony1626
1551 T. Raynald tr. A. Vesalius Compend. Declar. Vertues Oile Imperial sig. Eiv The verie true Elixir vitæ, maintaignar and prorogar of the same, is the holsom habite.
1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 23 Breade and Wyne, two of the cheefest mainteiners of mans life.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxxi. 292 Outward heat draweth out their inward moisture, which should be the maintainer and food of their heat natural.
1696 T. Tryon Misc. i. 3 The Volatile Spirit..is the Essential Life of every thing, and is the maintainer of its Colour.
1990 Nucleic Acids Res. 18 4268/1 We have cloned and sequenced the rice ATPase subunit 9 genes (atp9) from mitochondria in a male sterile line (Zhenshan 97A), its maintainer line (Zhenshan 97B) and restorer line (IR26).
8. Watchmaking and Clockmaking. An apparatus for keeping the movement of a clock or watch from being interrupted during the process of winding.
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1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 119 In some of Arnold's watches is a continuous maintainer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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