单词 | orthographer |
释义 | orthographern. A person who spells words, esp. with a specified proficiency; (also) an expert in orthography, one who studies spelling. Cf. speller n.2 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > one skilled in orthography spellerc1440 spelderer1483 orthographer1596 orthography1600 speler1611 orthographist1616 1596 J. Harington Metamorph. Aiax Prol. Sig. B4v Some ill orthographers haue miswritten it. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes An ortographer, or teacher..of orthographie. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Orthographist or Orthographer, one skilled in Orthography. 1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances III. 167 Frances is a remarkable Orthographer; and, unless that Letter [k] is expunged from Johnson's Dictionary, I am afraid we shall not be able to wrest it from her. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. ii. iii. 96 The industrious perversions of modern orthographers. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxviii. 624 The former..comes nearer to the good orthographer or arithmetician than the latter. 1887 Athenæum 5 Mar. 305 Rapid writer and correct orthographer. 1903 Mod. Lang. Notes 18 196/2 Fabian Frangk, the first New High German grammarian and orthographer, considered it worthy of imitation. 1959 Shakespeare Q. 10 102 Nicholas Okes was a printer who took liberties with his text, even when he printed the work of such an exacting orthographer as Ben Jonson. 1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 59 The early American orthographer John Pickering described it as ‘a sort of nasal twang’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1596 |
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