单词 | accusator |
释义 | accusatorn. historical in later use. An accuser; spec. a plaintiff, a prosecutor. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > one who accuses accusorc1350 accusatora1382 accusera1382 pealerc1400 accusant?a1425 witerc1449 imposant1502 charger1512 suggester1530 condemner?1541 cuser1589 suggestora1601 taxer1601 arraigner1854 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 1 Chron. Prol. 315 To my bacbyters oonly I answer..and acusatours and defendours. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 88 (MED) Þe foule synnes þat þes accusatours [of the woman taken in adultery] hadden don. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 130 (MED) Iuge not vnto dethe the woman..falsely acused..but her accusatourez be enquered. c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 520 (MED) Whan thay toke apon thaim thoffyce of auctour and accusator and thoffice of wytnes and of þe juge ayenst all maner lawes. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) vi. 1362 All thai..that he Hys accusatowris trowyd to be. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 365 His accusatouris had tacken upoun thame to prove thair accusatioun. a1605 R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. Scotl. (1806) 116 You, who..have bene my accusatouris. 1663 in Proc. House Commons (1700) 159 To Appeal a Man is as much as to accuse, and in ancient Books he that doth Appeal a Man is called accusator. 1697 Lady's Trav. Spain (1708) xi. 197 The president De la Plata, hath under him six Councellors, an Accusator, two Reporters, and two Porters. 1789 Oracle 4 July Monsieurs Suchodolski and Suchorzewski..as Accusators of the Prince, offered to be punished if they did not prove their Accusations. 1880 M. M. Bigelow Hist. Procedure in Eng. iii. 57 No ecclesiastical cause was to be tried (ordinarily, it seems) without an ‘accusator’ present in court. 1902 Harvard Law Rev. 15 614 Who could be an ‘accusator’ was then a much discussed question in church law. 1999 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 7 Apr. 12 Tobias Picker's Bible-thumping accusators in ‘Emmeline’, also at City Opera this season. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1382 |
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