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ravenern.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. the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun] α. c1384 (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 iv. pr. iii. 116 If he..be a ravynour [L. ereptor] by violence of foreyn richesse. c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 37 (MED) Rauenors, fornicarers, and swilk oþer..schal not haue þe kyndum of God. 1539 C. Tunstall sig. Dviiiv To make this realme a praye to al venturers, al spoylers,..all rauenours of the worlde. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden i. 108 These shamelesse Irish rauenours returne home. β. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (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 (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xviii. 43 (MED) Men of holychurche Sholde..refuse reuerences and raueneres offrynges.c1426 J. Audelay (1931) 112 (MED) Þese were proud men, raueners echon, Extorcioners, monslers.c1475 in (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 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 (1962) 289 Led by Thy Word the Rav'ner's stepps I shun.1632 W. Lithgow iii. 99 These..Seas, are free from pestilent Raueners.1697 C. Leslie (ed. 2) 96 Raveners from Christ, and his utter Enemies.1866 J. Brougham 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 199 This assassin, this ravener of other men's goods.1927 R. A. Taylor 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 (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.the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman > forcible > one who rapes c1390 (?c1350) Virgin of Antioch 368 in C. Horstmann (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 (Fairf.) v. 5530 (MED) Schrif thee hier If thou hast ben a Raviner Of love. a1393 J. Gower (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 iii. 129 That murderer, Of my bloud royall cruell rauiner. 3. the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton α. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in (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 (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 f. 94 The mouse..is for his bignes a verie rauenour or greedigut. 1572 J. Higgins (rev. ed.) Rauenour of delicate meate. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny 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 i. i. 87 Swine are accounted troublesome, noysome, vnruly, and great rauenours. β. 1519 W. Horman vii. f. 71 Thou arte a rauenar of delycatis and a francher.1520 R. Whittington sig. D.jv He is great rauener, specyally yf he come there as be good dysshes.1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 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 672 This hony of the Church..is let downe and digested by these raueners.1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon 70 The Pike, amongst Fishes..is a Ravener.?1715 A. S. 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 iii. i. 38 Ellisif. Lo! where the grim birds follow me! And gore my tender flesh... Ethelstan (rising). Avaunt, foul raveners!1885 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 91 Pale ravener of horrible meat.1965 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 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.1587 L. Mascall 259 The hogge..is a great rauener for his meate. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. v. 6 in II He is such a Rauener after fruite! 1962 R. Bradbury 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). < n.c1384 |