单词 | accepter |
释义 | acceptern. 1. a. A person who or thing which accepts or receives something. Cf. acceptor n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [noun] > acceptance > one who accepts accepter?a1425 acceptor1504 acceptant1598 acceptee1804 taker1808 ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 242 (MED) I am riȝt certeyne..þat þou schalt not dispise my desier ne myn axynges þat I haue axid of þee, for I knowe..þat þou art accepter and taker of holy desiris. 1638 Divine & Politic Observ. 39 Ceremonies rejected at the reformation, and abjured by the accepters of them. 1653 tr. L. van Aitzema Notable Revol. Netherlands 620 The said Receivers or Accepters of presents. 1691 R. Baxter Against Revolt to Foreign Jurisdict. xiv. 176 Many Great Councils have decreed the nullity of those Bishops that got in by Secular help and favour, and Damned the Seekers and Accepters of it. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xliv. 306 The giver and the accepter are principally answerable, in an unjust donation. 1773 London Mag. June 289/2 To the commission of it [sc. simony] three parties are requisite, the seller, the buyer, and the accepter. 1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad III. xxii. 38 Accepter of a bribe—his country's shame. 1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xv. 176 He now is..the justifier and accepter of the ungodly. 1939 L. MacNiece Autumn Jrnl. 16 Most are accepters, born and bred to harness, And take things as they come. 1958 Billboard 8 Dec. 59/3 A 2-cent coin, with the coin accepter taking a quarter and a 2-cent coin, would help out. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Oct. c1 Nearly every award presenter and accepter announced that he or she was, like, really really stoned. b. Finance. = acceptor n. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > a promissory note or bill of exchange > holder of > one who guarantees or signs acceptor1622 accepter1671 endorser1682 acceptee1804 1671 July 18. 1671: Tryal before Ld. Chief Justice Hales sig. A Concerning the Custome of Merchants, in case an Accepted Bill of Exchange be lost; The Question was, Whether the Accepter was bound to pay the Mony on the second Bill. 1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. i. 191 If the Possessor of a Bill neglect in due Time to present it, in Order to Acceptance..he loses his Recourse against the Drawer and Indorser, if the Person drawn upon, or Accepter, do in the Interim prove insolvent. 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 340 The accepter being discussed, the bill must recoil upon the drawer. 1864 Liverpool Mercury 13 Dec. The prisoner..asked him to discount the bill of exchange, stating that he had got it from Mr. Livesey, chemist,..whose name was written across it as the accepter. 1920 L. C. Ford & T. F. Ford Foreign Trade U.S. xvii. 216 The indorser of a draft or bill of exchange is the person who signs his name on it other than as drawer or accepter. He does this in order to transfer title to it or in order to guaranty its payment. 1996 G. Miller Legal & Econ. Basis Internat. Trade vii. 187 Where the accepter of a bill becomes bankrupt or insolvent or suspends payment before it matures, the holder may cause a protest. 2. accepter of persons (also faces) n. now rare and archaic a person who shows undue partiality or favouritism. Cf. accept v. 2, acceptor n. 1a; also respecter of persons at respecter n. ΚΠ 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie To Rdr. sig. A.vii Be no accepters of personnes. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xii. 197 God is no accepter of persons. 1631 W. Twisse Discov. D. Iacksons Vanitie xv. 515 I hope I shall not be censured for an accepter of persons. 1690 T. Sprat Serm. preached before King & Queen 18 He then became, as it were, an Accepter of Persons on the other side, and chose to appear in the vilest, and most despicable State. 1786 European Mag. & London Rev. June 410/1 Partiality to some interest..may blind the eyes of men of understanding, and make them accepters of persons in their judicial administrations. 1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages III. ix. 643 The bishops, through the basest and most criminal of motives, were habitual accepters of persons. 1922 E. Power Medieval Eng. Nunneries ii. 67 Dame Alice Porter said that the Prioress was an accepter of persons in making corrections. 1967 T. B. Maston Biblical Ethics viii. 251 God shows no favorites. He is no accepter of faces or persons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?a1425 |
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