单词 | subverter |
释义 | subvertern. A person who subverts a government, a system, another person, etc. (in various senses of subvert v.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > overthrow of a person, institution, belief, etc. > one who or that which overthrows supplanterc1390 subvertera1500 overthrower1548 subversor1548 downthringera1572 thringera1572 overthrow1581 overturner1591 prostrator1649 profligator1694 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person sower1380 kindler?c1450 stirrerc1450 subvertera1500 subverser1514 subvertor?1532 commotioner1549 provocator1559 seditioner1562 seedsman1587 tumulter1589 turmoiler1591 seditionary1607 seditiary1628 incendiary1631 patriot1644 embroiler1668 agitator1681 seditionist1786 agent provocateur1831 disquietist1834 insurrectionist1845 provocateur1855 galley-growler1867 a1500 Dialogue St. Anselm & Our Lady (Laud) f. 6v (MED) Mich false wittnes they leyd ayenst hym, seyenge þat he was the distroyere of þe lawe and the subuerter of the peple. 1515 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 80 The said mayre and Aldremen..be the brekers and subuerters of the good ordre and rule of the said Towne. 1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. Aiiiv The desceyuer and subuerter of the people. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (iii. 1) 547 How haue Christians..beene alwaies charged, that they were the onely subuerters of the place where they liued? 1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. *4v Virgil..might deserve the Title of Subverter of Superstitions, as well as Varro. 1796 tr. E. Gibbon Triumphs of Rom. in Misc. Wks. II. 382 The subverters of liberty. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxviii. 60 Cries which threatened the subverters of the constitution with death. 1863 A. De Morgan in Athenæum 10 Oct. 467/3 I will not, from henceforward, talk to any..constructor of perpetual motion, subverter of gravitation,..&c. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey (new ed.) xiv. 201 A very subtile Phoenician, one of those subverters who have wrought such havoc in the world. 1995 C. Townshend in D. J. Whittaker Terrorism Reader (2002) vii. 100 Modern paramilitary groups can be seen as products of traditional Northern Ireland society, not subverters of the old order but extreme versions of it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500 |
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