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单词 barrator
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barratorbarratern.

Brit. /ˈbarətə/, U.S. /ˈbɛrədər/
Forms: Middle English–1500s baratour, Middle English–1700s barretor, Middle English baratoure, baratowre, baratur, baritur, bariter, barratoure, 1500s baratter, barater, barator, barettour, baretour, barratur, 1500s–1600s barretour, 1500s–1700s barreter, 1600s–1700s barretter, 1600s–1800s barrettor, 1500s– barrator, barrater.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman *baratour = Old French barateor , -eeur (= Italian barattatore , Provençal baratador ) fraudulent dealer, cheat, trickster, < barat : see barrat v. Notwithstanding the derivation of the form < Old French, the sense of ‘fighter, quarreller’ (see barrat n. 3) is much more prominent in this word; the most usual sense, III. intimately blends the two ideas.
I. [ < Anglo-Norman baratour.] A person who deals fraudulently in his or her business or office.
1. A person who buys or sells ecclesiastical preferment, a simoniac or simonist (obsolete); one who buys or sells offices of state.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > simony > [noun] > one characterized by
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chop-church1391
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Simonianc1400
simonialc1405
simoniera1425
gyesite1426
barrator1427
simoner1438
simoniacle1502
simonite1508
Balaamite1559
simonist1567
chopper1581
benefice-monger1583
church-chopper1631
chop-living1634
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe > one who can be bribed > one who buys or sells offices of state
barrator1867
1427 Acts Jas. I (Scot.) §106 (1597) The King forbiddis, that onie of his lieges send onie expenses till ony barratour, that is now out-with the Realme.
1867 H. W. Longfellow in tr. Dante Inferno I. Notes 296/2 A Barrator, in Dante's use of the word, is..one who sells justice, office, or employment... Bontura was an arch-barrator.
2. A judge who takes bribes.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > unjust or corrupt
ambidexter1451
capon-justicea1639
unjusticea1661
justice broker1690
basket-justice1860
barrator1864
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Burrill).
1867 [see sense 1].
1884 J. Sibbald Dante's Inf. xxii. 52 (note) The barrators took toll of the administration of justice.
3. A ship's master who commits barratry n. 3.
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1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.
II. [ < barrat n. 3, Old Norse barátta.]
4. One who fights; esp. a hired bully. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > one who fights
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viragoa1616
scuffler1633
blue hen's chicken (also chick)c1800
scrapper1874
fightist1877
a1400 Sir Perc. 263 Kay the bolde baratour.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 207 Þe kyng..sent into Chestirschire for barettoures..þat þei schuld com and haue þe kepyng of his body.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 840/2 Suche barretors as vsed to take mony to beate any man, & againe wolde not sticke to take mony of him whome they had so beaten, to beate him that first hired them to beate the other.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 Hee sees with baretours Troy wals inuironed.
5. A quarrelsome person; one given to brawling and riot; a rowdy. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > raising outcry
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brawlc1440
outcrier1535
breacher1697
rowdy1814
roughiea1819
roughneck1834
rough1837
blood-tub1853
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous > person
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breacher1697
rowdy1814
roughiea1819
roughneck1834
rough1837
soap-lock1840
roughhouser1901
gurrier1936
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 23 Baratowre, pugnax, rixosus, jurgosus.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour xxxvii. 53 Theues, usureres, bariters, ouerthwarteres.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxij/1 Yf ther be ony comon Ryator Barratur or ony comon nyght walker wythout lyght.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 199 Wild Barretters..who delight in brawls and blows.
1714 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet 9 All common Barretors, Scolds, and other Breakers of the Peace.
figurative (of winds).1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 5 Dare ye loa, curst baretours..Too raise such raks iaks on seas?
III. (Combining II. and I.)
6. Law and gen. One who vexatiously raises, or incites to, litigation; a mover or maintainer of law-suits; one who from maliciousness, or for the sake of gain, raises discord between neighbours.The action of a barrator consists, says Coke ( On Litt. 368) ‘(1) in disturbance of the Peace; (2) in taking or keeping of possessions of Lands in controversie, not only by force, but also by subtiltie and a deceit, and most commonly in suppression of truth and right; (3) by false inuentions, and sowing of calumniations, rumors, and reports, etc.’
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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension > one who
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bate-makera1564
mischief-master1567
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breed-bate1593
kindle-fire1595
brew-bate1602
brand1608
fling-brand1616
make-strife1617
mischief-monger1620
blow-coal1622
kindle-coal1630
fire spirit1647
mischief-maker1675
mischief-doer1822
mixer1938
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > plaintiff > vexatious
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c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xii. 26 a Simples which that cannot vary May neuer accord with a baratour.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 115 Debate maker, or baratour, incentor.
1635 W. Lambarde & T. Lambarde Archeion (new ed.) 188 No Sheriffe or Steward..shall suffer any Barettor, or maintainer of Quarrels, in their Countrie Courts, or other Courts.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xiii. 408 A Barreter is an horseleach that onely sucks the corrupted bloud of the Law. He trades onely in tricks and quirks.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 800/1 Those public barreters, who..make it their business to form impeachments.
1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) A common solicitor, who solicits suits, is a common barretor.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great 80 The true wisdom of the great powers was to attack, not each other, but this common barrator.
7. transferred of things. Obsolete.
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1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xviii. 146 Mine and thine, are the common barretters of the World.
1691 T. Tryon Wisdom's Dictates 89 Intemperance..is the Common Barreter that disquiets private Families.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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