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单词 rehator
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rehatorn.

Forms: 1500s rahatour, 1500s rehator, 1500s rehatour, 1500s rehatoure.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: rehetour n.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of rehetour n. Compare later rehayte v. Compare also rabiator n.The a1586 forms in quots. 1508 and ?a1513 apparently show a reinterpretation of the word as rabiator n., perhaps indicating that rehator was already unfamiliar.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A villain, a scoundrel. Frequently as a term of abuse.
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1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 213 Raw mowit ribald, renegate rehatour [a 1586 rebeature; rhyme traytoure].
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Baird rehator [a1586 rebeatour], theif of nator, fals tratour, feyindis gett.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. vi. 117 Now lat that ilk rahatour [L. improbus] wend in hy The blak hellis biggyngis to vissy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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