单词 | propounder |
释义 | propoundern. 1. A person who propounds or sets forth an argument, question, idea, theory, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > one who puts forward purposer1481 propounder1561 proponerc1580 proposer1585 proponent1588 mover1604 Marxoid1987 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. vi. f. 34 There is..no session of iudges wtout a pretor, or propounder. 1593 R. Bancroft Daungerous Positions ii. i. 40 These things I thought meete..to set downe, that the propositions precedent might appeare vnto you, not to haue proceeded from any rash or light conceit in our English propounders, publishers, and maintainers of them. 1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 102 He hath beene the first and onely propounder of the manifest point of all other, which doth or may concerne mee most. 1644 E. Coke Institutes iii. lxxxv. 181 (heading) Against Monopolists, Propounders, and Projectors. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation v. 91 The Bishops charged the Protestants to have been the propounders of the questions. 1788 R. Bage James Wallace I. 217 My aim is to make my parishioners good husbands, good fathers, and good friends, not good propounders of mystery. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iv. 101 I answered every question with such fluency..as sometimes caused the propounder to regret that he had put me to the trouble of speaking. 1895 Dixon in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 640 Prominent among the supporters of this theory—if not its actual propounder. 1929 N. K. Smith tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason 97 It [sc. an absurd question] not only brings shame on the propounder of the question, but may betray an incautious listener into absurd answers. 1984 A. Livingstone Lou Andreas-Salomé v. 75 She was to become known as the propounder of the theory of the ‘back-effect’. 2000 Jrnl. Black Stud. 31 247 Ideological patriarch and foremost propounder of the political-economic concept of neo-colonialism. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > anticipation > of opponent's objections preoccupation1552 prevention1571 procatalepsis1577 prolepsis1580 presumptuous1589 preventer1589 propounder1589 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii. 139 Ye haue yet another maner of speach purporting at the first blush a defect which afterward is supplied, the Greekes call him Prolepsis, we the Propounder, or the Explaner which ye will. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > monopolist monopoler1589 monopolite1599 monopolian1601 monopolist1601 monopolitan1607 monopolitanian1627 monopole1648 propounder1670 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. sig. Fff2/2 Propounders, the 85 Cha. of Cokes 3 Institutes, is entituled, Against Monopolists, Propounders and Projectors; where it seems to be used onely as a Synonima to Monopolists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1561 |
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