单词 | mutineer |
释义 | mutineern. A person who revolts against or openly resists the authority of a superior or a governing body; (Military) a soldier or sailor guilty of mutiny as defined in military law. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > mutiny > [noun] > mutineer mutiner1569 mutine1591 mutineer1603 mutinado1604 mutinist1616 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 1118 Vpon whom the mutiniers many times desperatly sallied out. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. ii. 36 Keepe a good tongue in your head: If you proue a mutineere, the next Tree. View more context for this quotation 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 34 Spinola hath made great use of a secret of warre, how in scarcitie of moneys to awe these mutiniers. 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 108 The mutinyers were contented to receive a donative of four payes. 1701 D. Defoe Ye True-born Englishmen xxvi Some too began to curse and swear, And call'd the Author Mutinere, But all Men said 'Twas True. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 12 We put ten of the Mutineers in Irons... Others less guilty I punish'd and discharg'd. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas Pref. 17 The very Person who accused us, was the Ringleader and chief Mutineer. 1790 W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Bounty 3 The mutineers now hurried those they meant to get rid of into the boat. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 12 Silence those mutineers—that drunken crew, That crowd about the pilot in the storm. 1857 K. Young Jrnl. 12 May in Delhi—1857 (1902) i. 11 Mutineers from Meerut have seized the bridge at Delhi. 1898 Argosy Sept. 232 The burly ringleader of the mutineers was dragging a young girl about the floor by the hair of her head. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xix. 263 It seems that the pursuit by the cruiser had so terrorized the mutineers that they had continued out across the Atlantic. 1955 A. MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses vi. 102 His fellow mutineers had been unceremoniously turfed out to make room for the more seriously injured. 1991 Nation 23 Sept. 326/1 The young Jew murdered by anticonstitutional mutineers outside the Russian Parliament. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mutineerv. intransitive. To mutiny; to behave as a mutineer. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > mutiny > [verb (intransitive)] mutine1540 mutiny1584 mutinize1603 mutineer1682 1682 J. Lauder Hist. Notices (1848) 375 The Lord Nairne and some others mutineered, and alledged..ther was no law could oblidge them to afternoons meetings. 1872 W. C. Bennett Songs for Sailors 18 We'd been mutineering, but all that was done; We'd got all we asked, and were sharp set for fun. 1878 W. C. Bennett Sea Songs 60 But how, without quite mutineering, to trim course for land, was the rub. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 26 Suppl. 976 Those who, mutineering against the captain or master of a vessel on board of which they sail, take possession of her or her cargo. 1945 Jrnl. Politics 7 357 They rejected the government's orders..or even mutineered..when they disapproved its policy or personnel. 1998 Daily Mail (Nexis) 9 Sept. 74 Last season Tomas Brolin of Leeds mutineered, stressing he would never play for the club again after being left out of the team. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603v.1682 |
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