单词 | misgovernor |
释义 | misgovernorn. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker waryOE wandelard1338 breakerc1384 malefactora1438 law-breakerc1440 misgovernora1449 malfetoura1450 wrongdoer1501 contravener1567 criminal1610 contravenary1614 mug1865 crook1879 outlaw1880 punter1891 kink1914 heavy man1926 crim1927 antisocial1945 villain1960 banduluc1977 a1449 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 92 The sillers of the saide wyn bakers bruers and other mysgoverners abovesaid beth unpunyshed. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > who governs badly misleadera1393 misgovernor1509 misruler1554 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cclviiv O Lothsome lust: o mad mysgouernour Of all mankynde. 3. A person who misgoverns a state, nation, or (occasionally) other institution. ΚΠ a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 49 The Nobility of Scotland should be ready..to seise upon the King's Favourites, and Misgovernours of the State. 1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises I. 179 A nation bound by the act of past mis-governors. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. viii. 261 Traitors, misgovernors, worthy of death. 1884 Sat. Rev. 12 July 40/1 The misgovernors of Egypt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1449 |
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