单词 | substitutor |
释义 | substitutorn. a. A person who appoints a replacement to a role or position held by another. Cf. substitute v. 1a. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii To Appoint one in anothers roome, Substitute, which is Appointed in that roome, Substitude, which Appointed him, Substitutour. b. A person who appoints another as his or her substitute or proxy. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 81 The Prince answered, that he was sorry for his parting, but embraced the favour of his substitute, not to expect any service from him, but to doe him the service he owed his substitutor. 1835 W. B. Lighton Mem. Life i. 52 My substituteor [sic; 1836 substitutor],..after all I could say or do, would not pay me but two pounds—half the sum agreed upon, but said he would pay the other half when the regiment assembled for duty. 2. A person who puts one thing in place of another; a person who replaces one thing with another; spec. a person who sells an inferior or cheaper product (originally a medicine) in place of the one desired by the purchaser, with the aim of increasing profit; a person who passes off one manufacturer's goods as another's. ΚΠ 1810 C. Coote Russell's Hist. Mod. Europe (new ed.) VI. iii. xiii. 473 They professed themselves..the substitutors of freedom and happiness for slavery and misery. 1835 New-Eng. Mag. Dec. 419 Could I take the most heartless substitutor of thanks for gratitude, and persuade him [etc.]. 1839 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 31 599 It is monstrous to hear of and see the conduct of these numerous substitutors of one medicine for another. 1897 Christian Herald (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 975/2 Substitutors drug their concoctions to give them a coffee flavor. 1916 in Propaganda Reform in Proprietary Med. (1922) II. ii. 325 The possibility of chemical identification proves..that secrecy of composition..will not be a hindrance to the imitator and substitutor. 1967 Des Moines (Iowa) Reg. 30 May 8/4 Leading chain stores..are inclined to crack down on substitutors because one case..could give every store in the chain a bad name. 2008 T. Forsyth & A. Walker Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers 81 Crop substitutors found that there was no market, or even means of transportation, for their newly adopted crops. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623 |
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