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单词 setter-on
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setter-onn.

Etymology: See to set on at set v.1 Phrasal verbs 2.
Obsolete.
1. One who sets on; an instigator or inciter.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates
prickera1382
stirrerc1384
enticerc1386
exciter1387
risera1398
solicitor1412
erterc1440
prompter1440
stirrer?1533
motionerc1535
author1546
onsetter1549
stinger1552
setter-on1560
incentor1570
incensora1575
mover1578
whetter1579
out-hounder1596
hounder1597
egger on1598
inciter1598
instigator1598
urger1598
motive1600
fomenter1607
inflamer1609
fetcher in?1611
provokera1616
putter-ona1616
monitor1616
spurrer1632
outputter1639
poddera1640
commoter1646
impulsor1653
shaker and mover1874
agent provocateur1888
impeller1889
sooler1935
spark plug1941
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries Pref. sig. Aiiiiv I sent vnto them that were my setters on, at Woormes.
a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) ii. 2517 Tyll my setters on were of their purpose wyde.
1616 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 163 The Jesuistes and other padres are the fyre brands and setters on of all this, in provoking children against parents and subjects against their naturall princes.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ix. 284 The great Dowdy who acts the Part of a Madman, as well as some of his Setters-on do that of a Fool. View more context for this quotation
2. One who ‘sets on’ or makes an onset. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun]
assailera1400
assailant1523
assaulter1548
setter-on1569
aggressor1585
onsetter1588
offendent1646
attacker1664
inundator1794
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 294 I made once a vowe that the first battaile that eyther the king your father or any of his children should be at, how that I would be one of the first setters on, or else to die in the trauaile.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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