单词 | opposer |
释义 | opposern.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > auditor auditor1377 controllera1400 opposera1483 comptrollera1552 auditory1623 a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 51 The Chamberlayne is this clerke's auditour & opposer. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > [noun] > opponent in opposerc1500 opponent1588 courser1658 c1500 in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. A. p. xlv The Bedellys shall sett the Doctor from hys place to the commyn Scolys to rede his Ordynarye..and there shall wayte on hym all the Opposers. 1574 in G. Peacock Observ. on Statutes of Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. A. p. xiv Mr Vichauncellor, Mr Proctours, the Father, the Opposiers, the Bachiler awnswerynge, and the Bedels have an ordinarye Daye of Intermission at the assignement of Mr Proctours. b. Chiefly with capital initial. At Eton College and Winchester College: either of two examiners formerly appointed to carry out examinations for scholarships (to King's College, Cambridge, or New College, Oxford, respectively). Cf. apposer n. 1, poser n.1 1. Now rare (historical). ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > examiner > at universities regentc1447 moderator1573 moderatrix1577 tripos1660 tripus1670 praeses1761 senate-house examiner1855 opposer1891 1891 R. G. K. Wrench Winchester Word-bk. 32 Poser, an examiner. A very old word: also still used at Eton. Apposer and opposer are other old forms of it. 1901 H. Rashdall & R. S. Rait New College, Oxf. vi. 132 The Warden and Opposers are not to take bribes. 1926 M. R. James Eton & King's 99 The Provost of King's and two fellows selected for the purpose and known as Posers (Opposers, Apposiers, in the old Accounts) came to Eton and held an examination to select scholars of King's from among the Collegers. 3. = opponent n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opponent adversaryc1350 contraryc1405 overthwarter?c1450 party1488 opposant1489 oppositec1500 encounterer1523 oppugner1535 header1537 opponent1553 antagonist1555 crosser1565 adverse1593 oppositor1598 oppugnator1611 stickler1612 opposera1616 antipos1631 thwarter1633 Antarctic1637 contrariant1657 foe1697 oppositionist1786 oppugnanta1834 counterworker1867 contester1884 a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. i. 6 Holy seemes the quarrell Vpon your Graces part: blacke and fearefull On the opposer . View more context for this quotation 1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 139 Opposers of our Liturgie, who brag of their Cosinship and Coheirship with Christ. 1678 I. Walton Life of Sanderson b 1 b They perswaded him, that if he would but stand for Proctor,..he would infallibly carry it against any Opposers. 1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 214 The Opposers of Inoculation affirm, that two Persons died of the Inoculated Small Pox. 1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 195 I had a much greater number of opposers to combat with. 1776 W. Nimmo Hist. Stirlingshire (1817) I. vi. 125 He had been a strenuous opposer of the Reformation. 1830 W. Scott Ivanhoe in Waverley Novels XVI. 330 (note) The Journalist held his master's opinions..with respect to the Earl of Cassilis as an opposer of the king's party. 1884 Kendal Mercury 31 Oct. 5/2 The opposers of the scheme were a minority. 1925 H. P. Smith Old Test. Hist. xi. 212 He would vindicate them against every opposer. 1991 Independent 3 Dec. 18/2 The paper talks of sacking ‘renegades, subversives and opposers’ and of ‘de-recognising’ unions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1483 |
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