单词 | queller |
释义 | quellern.ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer > [noun] baneOE quelmerOE quellerOE murderer1340 slaughtermana1350 slayerc1380 killer1535 dispatcher1549 executioner1597 slaughterer?1611 widowmakera1616 mactator1656 zapper1969 the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin banea800 murthereOE quellerOE manslaughta1225 manquellec1275 murderer1340 Cainc1380 drepera1400 sicariana1400 murder mana1450 interfector1450 murdrier1481 murdresara1500 assassin1531 cut-throat1535 cutter1569 baner1605 brave1606 bravo1609 dagger-mana1616 assassinate1621 assassinator1651 sword-taker1660 assassinant1662 banesman1870 hatchet man1876 murdermonger1900 hit-man1970 mechanic1972 contract killer1980 OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 27 Se cinincg..sende ænne cwellere;..And he hine þa on cwerterne beheafdode. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. vii. 38 Se sylfa cwellere [L. carnifex] ðe hine slean sceolde. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 75 (MED) He seððen betache ðe ðe pineres and ðe cwelleres. c1300 St. James Great (Laud) 116 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 37 Heroudes ȝaf his dom a-non, his þrote to smite a-two; and Iosie þe quellare he was bi-take þulke dede for-to do. a1350 (a1325) St. Cecilia (Ashm.) 237 in Yale Stud. in Eng. (1898) 3 90 (MED) No quellare ne moste bi þulke daie smyte ouer þrie. c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 244 (MED) He sente his quellere son And bad hire wille schulde beo don. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 42 (MED) Þe men of þe town rase up & soght þis mans queller. ?a1475 G. Banester Guiscardo & Ghismonda (BL Add.) 404 in H. G. Wright Tales from Decameron (1937) 24 (MED) The prince..Made hym full pytuosly to be slayne, Chargyng the quellers off hym..To do hym the most dyspyte off tormente. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxxvii. f. 51 Ye ioye of the quellars and murderers. 1544 T. Chaloner tr. St. J. Chrysostom Homilie sig. Cv To this then hast thou made me a father, that I shulde be myne owne childes queller? 1598 Health to Gentlemanly Profession Seruingmen sig. C2v One of his Seruantes perceauing the quellers yet a farre off, which came to finysh his Maisters tragidie,..hid him safely. 1847 H. Bliss Cicero iii. iv.169 Cæsar's quellers, now to exile driven, Shall hold each province Rome to each has given. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward I. iii. 124 Slayer of witch-bears, Queller of Ogres, Fattener of ravens, Darling of grey wolves. 2. A person who or thing which subdues someone or something.Also as the second element in compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming > one who masterc1230 overcomerc1350 conquerorc1374 victora1400 overbearera1425 overgangerc1440 vanquisher1474 usurper1509 subduer1516 overthrower1548 defeater1582 prevailer1596 masterer1600 queller1613 conquerant1655 dompter1672 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > crushing, stifling, or overwhelming > one who or that which quenchera1382 hammer1382 suppresser1543 suppressor1560 quench-coal1615 pulverizer1635 stifler1642 smotherer1648 queller1804 overwhelmer1807 cold douche1835 squelcher1854 putter-down1869 steamroller1896 1613 L. Bayly Practise of Pietie (ed. 3) iv. 268 Profane companions are the chiefe enemies of Piety, and quellers of holy motions. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 630 Hail Son of the most High..Queller of Satan. View more context for this quotation 1739 Lives Persons Eastern Nations 257 The Rider, or Queller of Horses. 1799 ‘R. Slender’ Lett. xxiv. 141 Ye democrats, soldiers of '76, ye supporters of our independence, ye quellers of Great Britain. 1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 219 The promoters and quellers of the Wexford insurrection. 1887 Voice (N.Y.) 18 Aug. 5/5 [His] reputation as a clubber and as an efficient riot-queller is much more than local. 1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 27 Nov. He is a soldier, ornithologist, Old Harrovian; a queller of tribal risings in India and Africa. 2006 USA Today (Nexis) 11 Dec. 4 d Botox and other wrinkle quellers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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