单词 | surpriser |
释义 | surprisern. One who or that which surprises; † a capturer. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [noun] > one who surprises surpriser1584 startler1867 the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > [noun] > one who surpriser1584 apprehender1608 captiver1613 captivator1651 captor1688 capturer1820 fanger- 1584 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 659 Taikeris and surprisers of the said burgh and castell. 1592 N. Breton Pilgrimage to Paradise 24 Thou wicked witch..To bring a desperate spirit to defame, And by illusion, first the soules surpriser, That heares thy wordes, and wil beleeue the same. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 56 The surprizers of the King. 1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) 15 These Papers might have been Evidences of Truth and of Loyalty too had the Surprizers of them been guilty of these Vertues. 1665 Earl of Sandwich in Pepys' Diary, etc. (1870) 596 Prizes taken on the 3rd and 4th of September:—Surprizers,..Assurance, Anthelope, Adventure, Mary. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 144 The Surprisers were to be ready upon such a part of the Wall. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 538. ¶3 The Subject of Antipathies was a proper Field wherein such false Surprizers might expatiate. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. xiv. 363 Our Cavalry..cutting in upon the disordered surprisers. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 311 The confusion, terror, and indignation of the surprised gives little scope or will to take prisoners those of the beaten surprisers whom it is impossible to shoot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1584 |
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