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单词 ravener
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ravenern.

Brit. /ˈravn̩ə/, /ˈrav(ə)nə/, U.S. /ˈræv(ə)nər/
Forms:

α. Middle English rauaynour, Middle English raueynor, Middle English raueynour, Middle English rauinour, Middle English rauynor, Middle English rauynour, Middle English ravenour, Middle English ravenowre, Middle English raveynour, Middle English ravynour, Middle English–1500s ravinour, Middle English–1600s rauenor, Middle English–1600s rauenour; also Scottish pre-1700 revenour; N.E.D. (1903) also records a form late Middle English rauynoure.

β. Middle English rafener, Middle English rafeyner, Middle English rauenere, Middle English raueyner, Middle English raueynere, Middle English raveyner, Middle English 1600s ravenner, Middle English–1500s rauiner, Middle English–1500s raviner, Middle English–1500s ravyner, Middle English–1600s rauener, Middle English– ravener, 1500s rauenar, 1500s rauenner, 1500s rauerer (transmission error), 1500s–1600s rav'ner.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravin n.1, -er suffix1; raven v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: Either < ravin n.1 + -er suffix1, or < raven v. (although this is first attested later) + -er suffix1.Compare Old French ravineor, ravineour, ravineur robber (13th cent. in isolated use; the three forms all occur as variant readings in the same text, and have alternatively been interpreted as showing an adjective with the meaning ‘that lives by rapine’).
Now rare.
1. A person who takes goods by force; a robber, a plunderer, a despoiler.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]
riflera1350
ravenerc1384
pillerc1385
preyerc1390
raptora1398
peelera1425
despoiler1467
spulyierc1475
pillardc1485
ruggerc1485
pollera1513
booty-fellow1530
spoiler1535
caterpillar1541
kitea1556
ransacker?1576
predator1581
lurdan1589
worm1591
scraper1598
pillager?1611
ravager1611
bird of preya1616
depredator1626
plunderer1639
expilator1658
shark1713
depredationist1828
spoliator1831
rapiner1843
ravisher1851
α.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xviii. 11 I do thankingis to thee, for I am not as othere men, raueynouris [v.r. rauaynour; L. raptores], vniust, auouters.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. iii. 116 If he..be a ravynour [L. ereptor] by violence of foreyn richesse.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 37 (MED) Rauenors, fornicarers, and swilk oþer..schal not haue þe kyndum of God.
1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye sig. Dviiiv To make this realme a praye to al venturers, al spoylers,..all rauenours of the worlde.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 108 These shamelesse Irish rauenours returne home.
β. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 445 (MED) Þe kyng was a ravener [L. rapax] in gaderynge and a greet wastour in spendynge.c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xviii. 43 (MED) Men of holychurche Sholde..refuse reuerences and raueneres offrynges.c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 112 (MED) Þese were proud men, raueners echon, Extorcioners, monslers.c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 62 The same in lyke owght thys chyef Clerk to have in every offyce in houshold..to espye and to lette the wasters, ravenners, and miscarryers of the Kinge's goodes.1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus in Paraphr. New Test. I. Luke xv. f.cxxxiiiv The glorie of God is neuer more shewed or better sette foorth, then whan..a rauiner, and extorcioner, [is] made a defendour and helper of the poore.a1586 P. Sidney tr. Psalms David xvii. iv, in Poems (1962) 289 Led by Thy Word the Rav'ner's stepps I shun.1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 99 These..Seas, are free from pestilent Raueners.1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 96 Raveners from Christ, and his utter Enemies.1866 J. Brougham Lily of France i. ii. 10 Royster. Say yes, like an honest woman's daughter, and you shall have my share in the plunder of Orleans as a wedding-gift. Jane. Beware, how you approach me, English ravener! I am a daughter of France.1899 M. Hewlett Duchess of Nona viii, in Little Novels of Italy 199 This assassin, this ravener of other men's goods.1927 R. A. Taylor Leonardo iii. iii. 339 He controlled his own armies with a stern discipline; these raveners [sc. foreign soldiers and mercenaries] were not responsible to him.1994 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 10 June (Weekend section) 6 Everyone I talked to had their own cynical story about recovery. The most common resolution I heard was the street ravener who holds the booty in return for a payoff.
2. A ravisher, a rapist; a destroyer. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys
baneOE
losera1340
leeserc1380
stroyerc1380
destroyer1382
ravenerc1390
castera1400
confounder1401
wastera1425
stroyc1440
undoerc1440
unmakerc1450
confounderess1509
hydraa1513
stroy-good1540
abolisher1548
thunderbolt1559
disannullera1572
stroy-all1573
ruiner1581
down-puller1583
murdererc1585
spendingc1595
blaster1598
assassin1609
ruinater1609
dissolver1611
minerc1614
destructioner1621
fordoer1631
sinker1632
destructive1640
deletery1642
assassinatea1658
ruinator1658
destroyeress1662
destructora1691
dissolvent1835
solvent1841
wrecker1882
destructant1889
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman > forcible > one who rapes
ravishera1325
ravenerc1390
violator?a1475
rapter1582
abuser1584
raptor1592
rapist1869
raper1878
c1390 (?c1350) Virgin of Antioch 368 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 31 (MED) Þe rauinoures þat hire abiden Ne seȝen hire nout..For þei wenden swiþe wel Þe maiden ha founden in þe bordel.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 5530 (MED) Schrif thee hier If thou hast ben a Raviner Of love.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 5627 (MED) That tirant raviner..Foryat he was a wedded man, And in a rage on hire he ran, Riht as a wolf which takth his preie.
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iii. 129 That murderer, Of my bloud royall cruell rauiner.
3.
a. A ravenous person or animal; a voracious eater, a devourer; a glutton. Also with of.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton
glutton?c1225
glutc1394
globberc1400
glofferc1440
gluttoner1482
gourmanda1492
ravener1496
belly1526
golofer1529
lurcher1530
cormorant1531
flesh-fly1532
full-belly1536
belly-godc1540
flap-sauce1540
gourmander1542
gully-gut1542
locust1545
glosser1549
greedy-guts1550
hungry gut1552
belly-slave1562
fill-belly1563
grand paunch1569
belly-paunch1570
belly-swainc1571
trencher-slave1571
slapsauce1573
gorche1577
helluo1583
gormandizer1589
eat-all1598
engorger1598
guts1598
guller1604
gourmandist1607
barathrum1609
eatnell1611
snapsauce1611
Phaeacian?1614
gutling1617
overeater1621
polyphage1623
tenterbelly1628
gut-head1629
stiffgut1630
gobble-guts1632
gulist1632
polyphagian1658
fill-paunch1659
gype1662
gulchin1671
stretch-gut1673
gastrolater1694
gundy-gut1699
guttler1732
gobbler1755
trencher-hero1792
gorger1817
polyphagist1819
battenera1849
stuff-guts1875
chowhound1917
gannet1929
Billy Bunter1939
guzzle-guts1959
garbage can1963
foodaholic1965
α.
1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. iijv The ele is a quasy fysshe a rauenour and a deuourer of the brode of fysshe.
?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) ii. sig. Bii Bothe these whelpes, hauynge one syre and one damme, by custome be trayned in to sondrye disposicions: for the one is become a rauenour, the other a good hunter.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 94 The mouse..is for his bignes a verie rauenour or greedigut.
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Rauenour of delicate meate.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 243 As for the sea Pontus, there enter into it few or no rauenours that haunt and deuoure fishes, vnlesse it be the Seales & little Dolphins.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. i. 87 Swine are accounted troublesome, noysome, vnruly, and great rauenours.
β. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria vii. f. 71 Thou arte a rauenar of delycatis and a francher.1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. D.jv He is great rauener, specyally yf he come there as be good dysshes.1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. vi. sig. Ji.ivv/2 Of birdes those are forbidden which are the gretest raueners.1615 Bp. J. Hall Imprese of God ii, in Recoll. Treat. 672 This hony of the Church..is let downe and digested by these raueners.1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 70 The Pike, amongst Fishes..is a Ravener.?1715 A. S. Gentleman's Compl. Jockey 157 Thus much I think may be sufficient for these Vermine, Insects and Raveners that infest the House, Field, Park and Warren.1841 G. Darley Ethelstan iii. i. 38 Ellisif. Lo! where the grim birds follow me! And gore my tender flesh... Ethelstan (rising). Avaunt, foul raveners!1885 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 12 Aug. If..some little white lamb opens his eyes to the pleasant May sunshine only to have them picked out by a flock of the merciless raveners [sc. crows].1888 H. Melville John Marr & Other Sailors 91 Pale ravener of horrible meat.1965 Amer. Lit 37 193 In the purely natural world no creature is good or evil and no ravener or ravened is good or innocent.1997 E. Ritter Hidden Life of Humans vi. 142 Murphy straining at the end of his leash, while I haul on his collar... Ravener of refuse, lecher of laundry bags, despotic disrupter of domestic routines.
b. A person or thing that hungers after (or †for) something. archaic in later use.
ΚΠ
1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell 259 The hogge..is a great rauener for his meate.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. v. 6 in Wks. II He is such a Rauener after fruite!
1962 R. Bradbury Something Wicked this Way Comes ii. xl. 228 If I can guess the carnival's sense of irony, the way they like to weight the scales, he was once a ravener after all kinds and varieties of lust.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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