单词 | reviler |
释义 | revilern. A person who reviles; one who abuses (or in early use: †debases) someone or something. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > one who swears or abuses curser1303 ribalda1325 warier1382 swearerc1386 reviler1517 reproacher?1532 scogginist1593 damme1618 foulmoutha1640 God damn me1640 damner1647 juror1653 comminator1682 muck-spouta1825 guttermouth1965 potty mouth1969 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > one who uses invective or abuse scoldc1175 scolder1423 railer1513 reviler1517 stinger1552 disgracer1570 invectiver1596 inveighera1601 outrayer1602 blatant1610 vent-giver1611 invector1654 insectator1706 slangwhanger1807 vituperator1837 invectivist1862 clapperclawer1873 vituperant1889 1517 R. Fox tr. Rule Seynt Benet xxxi. sig. D.vi The Selleresse of the monastery muste be..wyse,..sobre, no great eter,..no rebuker, or reuiler [L. non turbulentus, non iniuriosus], not slowe, not prodigall. 1534 Prymer in Eng. sig. Pv I myght haue to answere my reuylers: for I stycke to thy promyses. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xi. §4. 117 He maketh Diagoras (a knowne Reuiler of all their other gods) yet to be a true worshipper of the drunken God Bacchus. 1657 J. Stalham (title) The reviler rebuked: or a reinforcement of the charges against the Quakers. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 498 The..base revilers of our house and name. 1803 Anti-Gallican 1 244/1 Let a lingering and torturing death recompence the reviler of the conquering hero, Pizarro. 1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 270 Why do the revilers of the idle, labour and toil with such perseverance? 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 151 The reviler who indulges in anger..may be chastened by an elder. 1920 H. O. Taylor Thought & Expression 16th Cent. I. iii. xi. 304 The picture is not more abusive than Dolet would have drawn of his reviler. 1986 P. Fussell Thank God for Atom Bomb (1990) 224 It is always well for the reviler of the past to keep in mind,..that he himself will be, in his turn, revileable. 2009 Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 May 29 Malcolm Sinclair has a field day as this starchy reviler of modern ways. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1517 |
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