单词 | renovator |
释义 | renovatorn. 1. A person who or thing which renews, restores, or reinvigorates. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > renovation or renewal > one who renewera1398 renovator1597 renovater1791 1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux 22 This was th'afflicting corsiue of your harts, And howerly renouator of your ills. 1641 Ld. Faulkland Let. in W. Montagu Let. from France 24 But hee [sc. Luther] might be the Renovator, and not the Innovator, and then no such consequence follows. 1694 T. Taylor tr. N. Malebranche Treat. conc. Nature & Grace iii. ii. 29 in tr. N. Malebranche Treat. conc. Search after Truth Affix to the word Grace distinct and particular Idea's, and remember the difference between the Grace of the Creator and Renovator. 1797 Times 23 Sept. I shall recommend it [sc. tea]..as a general renovator of the constitution. 1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) I. 427 The barbarian conquerors were the renovators, not the destroyers of its civilisation. 1942 Music & Lett. 23 133 Wagner, master of the orchestra and renovator of the drama, had nothing to bequeath to song-with-pianoforte but his sequential melody. 1986 G. Martin in L. Bethell Cambr. Hist. Lat. Amer. IV. xi. 511 Salvador Novo,..a talented, whimsical poet best known as a tireless social and literary critic in numerous newspapers and magazines, renovator of the crónica and modernizer of Mexican culture. 2. A person who repairs or refurbishes something; (now esp.) one who renovates a building. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > one who or that which corrector1377 mendera1382 physiciana1398 amenderc1405 redresserc1449 corrigiour1474 repairer?1504 redressc1530 remeder1535 righter1566 rectifier1607 redressor1643 corrective1768 renovator1827 readjuster1850 Mr Fixit1924 fixer-upper1932 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun] clouterc1440 maker-up?a1444 botcher1499 repairer?1504 reparationer1520 patcher1528 bodger1538 repareller1546 mender1552 sarcinator1646 vamper1712 piecer1764 renovator1827 repairman1856 fixer?1881 serviceman1905 Mr Fixit1924 fixit man1949 fixit1982 1827 Morning Chron. 12 Apr. Lewis Cohen, a renovator of old clothes. 1890 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 11 182 The objects that in the last few years have been drawn from the soil of Pergamon are originals of first-hand value, uncorrupted by the hand of the renovator. 1911 J. Geddie Romantic Edinb. (rev. ed.) x. 114 The great restorer and renovator of Holyrood is believed to have been Abbot Crawford, and his handiwork..is manifest in the arches and buttresses of the north and south aisles of the nave. 1963 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 31 197 The renovator, before he can consider adding amenities, must absorb the cost of bringing the building into conformance with a code enacted after the building was constructed. 2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) vii. 157 He was not just a renovator of historic buildings with an expensive taste in wallpaper. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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