| 单词 | ruler of the roast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasruler of the roast ruler of the roast n. now rare a person who has full sway or authority; a master. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > person having full authority ruler of the roast1563 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes f. 67 For Prynces and gouerners, you haue the Romaynes, the rulers of the rost (as they say). 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 67 b If you..will notwithstanding be accompted a ruler of the Roast in Divinitie. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue 79 Making himselfe, as it were, master and ruler of the roste. 1683 G. Morley Bp. Winchester's Vindic. xiv. 112 Mr. Baxter..seem'd to be the Dominus factotum, The Ruler of the Roast, in the business. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 6 This Ruler of the Roast, has so little Christian Honesty. 1770 A. Brice Mobiad i. 4 Offal Mumpers boast Themselves so good as Rulers of the Roast. 1834 T. Hood Tylney Hall I. vii. 74 As she spoke, the unruly ruler of the roast deliberately relaxed her ruddy fingers. 1898 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (new ed.) 35 The lowest men..became ‘rulers of the roast’. 1914 N. Newnham-Davis Gourmet's Guide to London ii. 6 Mr Davey, the polite, white-haired little ruler of the roast. < as lemmas |
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