prolongern.
/prəˈlɒŋə/, U.S. /prəˈlɔŋər/, /proʊˈlɔŋər/, /prəˈlɑŋər/, /proʊˈlɑŋər/ 1. A person who or thing which prolongs something.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > lengthening in duration or prolonging > one who draws out
prolonger1548
wire-drawer1566
lengthener?1577
protracter1611
protractor1611
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > one who delays
tarrier1382
delayer1509
postponer1533
prolonger1548
proroguer1551
deferrer1552
waiter upon God1592
procrastinator1607
temporizer1609
protracter1611
protractor1611
retarder1644
cunctator1654
adjourner1738
postponator1775
putter-off1803
tomorrower1810
offput1856
shelver1881
staller1937
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Cunctator.., a taryar, a deferrer, a lyngerer, a prolonger of tyme.
1595 F. Sabie Fissher-mans Tale sig. C2v Mine onley daughter, solace of my life, Staffe of my age, prolonger of my dayes.
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Waltham-Abby 11 in Church-hist. Brit. Those common prolongers of all sutes..the heat of mens anger, and the bellows of instruments, gaining by Law.
1686 J. Davies Memorial for Learned 118 Great variety of Meat without a doubt is a great prolonger of Life.
1726 E. Thomas Poems Several Occasions 121 Complaints Prolongers are of Pain.
1788 E. Inchbald Mogul Tale ii. 18 I am a Doctor..adept in philosophy, giver of health, prolonger of life, child of the sun, [etc.].
1832 A. Barnes in Misc. Ess. & Rev. (1855) I. iii. 148 It was assumed that there was somewhere an elixir of life, a universal preventive of disease, and prolonger of life.
1889 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 260 It would take a great many facts to establish his ‘elixir’ as a therapeutical agent or a prolonger of life.
1902 Daily Chron. 23 Apr. 7/1 He..would not be called the founder of a Mecklenburg dynasty in the Netherlands, but only the prolonger of the House of Orange-Nassau in the female line.
1955 Sci. News Let. 9 July 19/3 Chlorpromazine..is a true potentiator, and not merely a prolonger of the action of the barbiturate.
2004 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 July 81 A superb advertisement for ballet as a prolonger of youth.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > save-all
prolonger1650
save-all1655
shove-up socket1751
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 428 Temperance is the best prolonger of the candle of life.
1656 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1848) 1 70 2 prolongers and an extinguisher.
a1679 R. Wild Benefice (1689) iv. 44 If Patents and Monopolies had had Prolongers, they had not gone out yet.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xiv. 5/2 Prolongers or saue-alls..are things made after the form of a candle sockett and are set in the stick as the sockett is.
1709 J. Harris Divine Physician (ed. 2) iii. 162 Intemperance is the Extinguisher, and Temperance the Prolonger of the Candle of our life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1548