单词 | temporizer |
释义 | temporizern. One who temporizes. 1. One who complies for the time, or yields to the time; a time-server, a ‘trimmer’. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer Jack of both sides1554 mongrela1555 timeling1554 temporizer1555 time-taker1576 politique1581 time-server1583 time-pleaser1590 time observer1594 temporist1596 please-time1606 timist1614 timorist?1623 trimmer1682 Vicar of Bray1725 timer1842 1555 R. Pownoll tr. W. Musculus (title) The Temporisour (that is to say, the Observer of Tyme) translated into Inglishe. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 53 Werray finȝeit hypocritis, and temperizaris with the tyme contrare thair conscience. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2284/1 One by iudgement reformed, is more worth then a M. transformed temporizers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 304 A mindlesse Slaue, Or else a houering Temporizer . View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 290 They would neuer be dissembling temporisors. 1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence ii. 101 The Policy of Temporizers, men that steer their course by the compass of Worldly Interests. 1812 P. B. Shelley Addr. in Prose Wks. (1888) I. 258 The dangers which lie beneath the footsteps of the hypocrite or temporizer. 2. One who seeks to gain time; a procrastinator, delayer; one who waits for a favourable time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > one who delays tarrier1382 delayer1509 postponer1533 prolonger1548 proroguer1551 deferrer1552 waiter upon God1592 procrastinator1607 temporizer1609 protracter1611 protractor1611 retarder1644 cunctator1654 adjourner1738 postponator1775 putter-off1803 tomorrower1810 offput1856 shelver1881 staller1937 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 370 Like unto that auncient and warie temporizer [Q. Fabius Maximus]. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxix. 383 Doth Satan play the temporizer and time all his suggestions? 1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 469/1 The famous Advice..which ought to be observed by all Temporizers; viz. Time was; Time is: but take Care to lay hold on the Opportunity before the Time is past. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1555 |
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