单词 | mender |
释义 | mendern. A person who mends something; a repairer or improver (of).Frequently with prefixed word specifying the object, etc., mended, esp. in occupational terms, as bellows-, road-mender, etc.; for more established compounds see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > one who or that which corrector1377 mendera1382 physiciana1398 amenderc1405 redresserc1449 corrigiour1474 repairer?1504 redressc1530 remeder1535 righter1566 rectifier1607 redressor1643 corrective1768 renovator1827 readjuster1850 Mr Fixit1924 fixer-upper1932 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun] > one who improves mendera1382 raisera1400 betterer1600 improver1613 meliorator1782 ameliorator1930 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun] clouterc1440 maker-up?a1444 botcher1499 repairer?1504 reparationer1520 patcher1528 bodger1538 repareller1546 mender1552 sarcinator1646 vamper1712 piecer1764 renovator1827 repairman1856 fixer?1881 serviceman1905 Mr Fixit1924 fixit man1949 fixit1982 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Wisd. vii. 15 God..is duke of wisdam & þe mendere of wise men. c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 135 (MED) Heil mender of eueri monnes mynde. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. EEiiiv I shulde accompt it amonge my great lucres and vauntages..to be reproued or correct of my reformer or mender. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bodger, botcher, mender, or patcher of olde garmentes. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A mender, a setler, an ordrer. 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois ii. 18 All vaunt themselues, Law-menders and suppliers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. i. 14 Mur. But what Trade art thou? Answer me directly. Cob. A Trade Sir, that I hope I may vse, with a safe Conscience, which is indeed Sir, a Mender of bad soules. View more context for this quotation 1689 B. Keach Distressed Sion Relieved 74 Gods Laws are sound, and need no humane menders. 1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks iii. sig. F1v Thou Varnisher of thy Mistresses Imperfections, Cabinet of her Intreagues, Heiress of old Cloaths, and Mender of fusty foul Linnen. 1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 62 The Terence of England, the mender of hearts. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. xxvi. 126 The mender of pens groaned. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 295 A mender of old shoes, or a patcher up of clothes. 1894 Ld. Rosebery in Times 25 May 8/3 I have always been rather a mender than an ender. 1905 Strand Mag. Mar. 268/1 A good looking young ‘trouble-shooter’—as a mender of telephone lines is called. 1972 B. J. Kahan in Misc. Current Care (Nat. Council Unmarried Mother) 22/1 Their children's shoes were going to be at the mender's for ten days. 1989 A. Lambert Love among Single Classes (1990) 83 To have gone from being an economics professor to a violin mender would have been bad enough. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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