thinkern.

Brit.

/ˈθɪŋkə/, U.S.

/ˈθɪŋkər/

Forms: see think v.² and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: think v.², -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < think v.² + -er suffix¹.

1. One who thinks.

a. gen. A person engaged in thinking; a being having the power to think. Also: a person who thinks out or devises something.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > one who thinks

thinker1435

minder1584

thought-catcher1584

raisonneur1814

cogitator1834

thought-maker1841

noodler1955

maître à penser1959

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 90 To þame sothely þat has þer desyre bowyd to lufe of þis warldly creaturis, hevy it is..þof mynde of hym be swettyst & to þinkars meruelusly it waxys sweytt.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 490 Thenkare, cogitator, pensator.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xii. 73 Noysome onely vnto the thynker.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 761 The Democriticks and Epicureans did indeed, suppose, all humane Cogitations to be Caused..by the Incursion of Corporeal Atoms upon the Thinker.

1730 T. Cibber Patie & Peggy 14 For all that we can say or do 'Gainst Love, no Thinker heeds us.

1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 167 Happy they, who in some such rural retirement, can..devote the greater portion of their time to sacred knowledge, Heavenly piety, and angelick goodness; which cannot be dissolved when the thinker goes.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 208 He stands forth..as the thinker, the inventor, the actor of the scene.

1879 J. Cook Lect. Conscience vi The universe exhibits thought. There cannot be thought without a thinker.

1912 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 9 208 What in the behavior of the thinker who doesn't behave is his thought?

1950 Times 11 Feb. 5/3 Later ages..object that the reality of the thought does not prove the existence of a thinker.

1991 Mind 100 123 When a thinker perceives an object, is he able to think of it in a perceptual-demonstrative way only because his perceptual experience correctly locates the object?

b. With modifying adjective: a person who thinks in the way expressed by the adjective; with commendatory words (e.g. able, deep, original) often practically coinciding with sense 1c.

ΚΠ

c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 163 (MED) Where..was euer a synnefullere thynker þan was Seynt Poule?

1584 J. Rainolds & J. Hart Summe of Conf. 31 You haue beene an Idolater,..a false witnesse, an euill thinker, and what not.

a1622 N. Byfield Comm. 2nd Chapter of 1st Epist. St. Peter (1623) 620 The Magistrate can onely punish euill doers, that is, such as offend in word or deed: euill thinkers they cannot meddle withall.

c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §4 You may as well hope to make a good..Musician..by a Lecture..in the Arts of Musick..as a coherent Thinker, or strict Reasoner, by a Set of Rules.

a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) II. 114 He was able..to delude a superficial Thinker with his new Terms and Reasonings.

1764 S. Johnson Let. 20 Sept. (1876) xii. 295 Such loose thinkers as Mayhew can scarcely be accounted better Christians than the Turks.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. i. 227 Lloyd..was an original thinker, rather than the collector of the opinions of others.

1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. ii. 44 Two of the ablest thinkers whom America has yet produced.

1903 Church Times 11 Dec. 749/3 Mr. Spencer showed another weakness of the abstract Thinker.

1963 L. M. Packer C. Rossetti iv. 64 Scott considered himself profound, a deep thinker, and something of a genius; moreover, he successfully imposed this opinion of himself upon others.

1990 J. Sutherland Mrs Humphry Ward v. 46 Humphry was not by nature an original thinker and his mind had been formed by two strong personalities.

c. spec. A person who has special or well-trained powers of thought, esp. abstract thought; a person with a skilled or powerful mind. Also: a person devoted to thinking, as distinguished from action or practical affairs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosopher > [noun]

philosopher?1316

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thinker1830

philosopherling1833

phantasmagorist1862

philosopher's philosopher1879

maître à penser1959

1737 A. Hill Tears of Muses 35 Form'd for a Lover, for a Thinker taught; Bloodless reflective Eminence, He sought.

1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary xxvi. 151 It is very difficult to discipline the mind of a thinker, or reconcile him to the weakness, the inconsistency of his understanding.

1830 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. vi. 128 Neither is his [sc. Jeffrey's] arguing like that of a thinker, but of the advocate.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 20 English thinkers aspired to know, or dared to doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and to believe.

1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 30 Not one of them makes the slightest pretension to be a scholar or a thinker.

1934 M. McLuhan Let. 10 Nov. (1987) 39 As for that fusty old rationalist [Herbert] Spencer—don't puzzle yourself about him. As a philosopher and thinker he is less than nothing.

1963 D. MacDonald Against Amer. Grain 3 Thinkers like H. G. Wells, Stuart Chase and Max Lerner come under the head of Midcult rather than Masscult.

1990 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 15 Apr. 14/6 She is..one of the new breed of emerging young thinkers that people of 50 or so regard as kids.

†d. Theatre slang. An actor who plays ‘thinking parts’ (see thinking part n. at thinking n. Compounds 2). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part

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character comedian1857

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onnagata1889

serio1889

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tritagonist1890

oyama1925

juve1935

1886 Stage Gossip 70 The gentlemen who play the most subordinate parts are..called ‘thinkers’ on account of their having little or nothing to say and lots of time wherein to think.

2. A person's mind, the brain as the organ of thought. humorous.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > [noun]

hearteOE

moodeOE

wita1000

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box1908

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun]

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Geist1871

noesis1881

1835 A. F. Tytler Mary & Florence i. 6 What should we do about our thinkers? would one thinker do for two Tongues?

1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 279 ‘If God did not intend I should think, why did He give me a “thinker”?’ Probably a more childish inquiry was never made by a full-grown man.

1909 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. IV. 231 I'm not Disposed to grapple with so great a matter. 'Twould tie my thinker in a double knot And drive me staring mad as any hatter.

1976 D. Jongeward & D. Scott Women as Winners ii. 32 She let her feelings govern her actions, without putting her thinker in gear.

1999 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 7 Mar. f2 I have been in a sexless marriage for more than 14 years, and I definitely do not have a ‘clinker in my thinker’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	thinker
释义	thinkern. Brit. /ˈθɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˈθɪŋkər/ Forms: see think v.² and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: think v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: < think v.² + -er suffix¹. 1. One who thinks. a. gen. A person engaged in thinking; a being having the power to think. Also: a person who thinks out or devises something. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > one who thinks thinker1435 minder1584 thought-catcher1584 raisonneur1814 cogitator1834 thought-maker1841 noodler1955 maître à penser1959 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 90 To þame sothely þat has þer desyre bowyd to lufe of þis warldly creaturis, hevy it is..þof mynde of hym be swettyst & to þinkars meruelusly it waxys sweytt. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 490 Thenkare, cogitator, pensator. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xii. 73 Noysome onely vnto the thynker. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 761 The Democriticks and Epicureans did indeed, suppose, all humane Cogitations to be Caused..by the Incursion of Corporeal Atoms upon the Thinker. 1730 T. Cibber Patie & Peggy 14 For all that we can say or do 'Gainst Love, no Thinker heeds us. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 167 Happy they, who in some such rural retirement, can..devote the greater portion of their time to sacred knowledge, Heavenly piety, and angelick goodness; which cannot be dissolved when the thinker goes. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 208 He stands forth..as the thinker, the inventor, the actor of the scene. 1879 J. Cook Lect. Conscience vi The universe exhibits thought. There cannot be thought without a thinker. 1912 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 9 208 What in the behavior of the thinker who doesn't behave is his thought? 1950 Times 11 Feb. 5/3 Later ages..object that the reality of the thought does not prove the existence of a thinker. 1991 Mind 100 123 When a thinker perceives an object, is he able to think of it in a perceptual-demonstrative way only because his perceptual experience correctly locates the object? b. With modifying adjective: a person who thinks in the way expressed by the adjective; with commendatory words (e.g. able, deep, original) often practically coinciding with sense 1c. ΚΠ c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 163 (MED) Where..was euer a synnefullere thynker þan was Seynt Poule? 1584 J. Rainolds & J. Hart Summe of Conf. 31 You haue beene an Idolater,..a false witnesse, an euill thinker, and what not. a1622 N. Byfield Comm. 2nd Chapter of 1st Epist. St. Peter (1623) 620 The Magistrate can onely punish euill doers, that is, such as offend in word or deed: euill thinkers they cannot meddle withall. c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §4 You may as well hope to make a good..Musician..by a Lecture..in the Arts of Musick..as a coherent Thinker, or strict Reasoner, by a Set of Rules. a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) II. 114 He was able..to delude a superficial Thinker with his new Terms and Reasonings. 1764 S. Johnson Let. 20 Sept. (1876) xii. 295 Such loose thinkers as Mayhew can scarcely be accounted better Christians than the Turks. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. i. 227 Lloyd..was an original thinker, rather than the collector of the opinions of others. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. ii. 44 Two of the ablest thinkers whom America has yet produced. 1903 Church Times 11 Dec. 749/3 Mr. Spencer showed another weakness of the abstract Thinker. 1963 L. M. Packer C. Rossetti iv. 64 Scott considered himself profound, a deep thinker, and something of a genius; moreover, he successfully imposed this opinion of himself upon others. 1990 J. Sutherland Mrs Humphry Ward v. 46 Humphry was not by nature an original thinker and his mind had been formed by two strong personalities. c. spec. A person who has special or well-trained powers of thought, esp. abstract thought; a person with a skilled or powerful mind. Also: a person devoted to thinking, as distinguished from action or practical affairs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosopher > [noun] philosopher?1316 philosophe1340 divider1588 philosophist1589 philosophizer1676 thinker1830 philosopherling1833 phantasmagorist1862 philosopher's philosopher1879 maître à penser1959 1737 A. Hill Tears of Muses 35 Form'd for a Lover, for a Thinker taught; Bloodless reflective Eminence, He sought. 1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary xxvi. 151 It is very difficult to discipline the mind of a thinker, or reconcile him to the weakness, the inconsistency of his understanding. 1830 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. vi. 128 Neither is his [sc. Jeffrey's] arguing like that of a thinker, but of the advocate. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 20 English thinkers aspired to know, or dared to doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and to believe. 1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 30 Not one of them makes the slightest pretension to be a scholar or a thinker. 1934 M. McLuhan Let. 10 Nov. (1987) 39 As for that fusty old rationalist [Herbert] Spencer—don't puzzle yourself about him. As a philosopher and thinker he is less than nothing. 1963 D. MacDonald Against Amer. Grain 3 Thinkers like H. G. Wells, Stuart Chase and Max Lerner come under the head of Midcult rather than Masscult. 1990 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 15 Apr. 14/6 She is..one of the new breed of emerging young thinkers that people of 50 or so regard as kids. †d. Theatre slang. An actor who plays ‘thinking parts’ (see thinking part n. at thinking n. Compounds 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part ruffy1502 chorus1561 prologuer1570 prologue1579 turquet1625 woman actor1633 underpart1679 epilogist1716 prologist1716 epiloguizer1748 old man1762 prologuizer1762 buffo1764 extrac1777 jeune premier1817 primo buffo1826 character actor1841 utility man1849 deuteragonist1855 character comedian1857 bit playera1859 utility actor1860 serio-comic1866 juvenile lead1870 serio-comique1870 heavy1880 utility1885 thinker1886 onnagata1889 serio1889 juvenile1890 tritagonist1890 oyama1925 juve1935 1886 Stage Gossip 70 The gentlemen who play the most subordinate parts are..called ‘thinkers’ on account of their having little or nothing to say and lots of time wherein to think. 2. A person's mind, the brain as the organ of thought. humorous. ΘΚΠ the mind > [noun] hearteOE moodeOE wita1000 intention1340 mindc1384 intentc1386 ingeny1477 thinker1835 box1908 the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] i-witc888 anyitOE witOE thoughtOE inwitc1305 intention1340 mindc1384 understandingc1384 intentc1386 intelligencec1390 intellecta1398 minda1398 understanda1400 intellectionc1449 ingeny1477 intellectivec1484 mind-sight1587 intellectual1598 notion1604 intelligency1663 mental1676 nous1678 grasp1683 thinker1835 Geist1871 noesis1881 1835 A. F. Tytler Mary & Florence i. 6 What should we do about our thinkers? would one thinker do for two Tongues? 1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 279 ‘If God did not intend I should think, why did He give me a “thinker”?’ Probably a more childish inquiry was never made by a full-grown man. 1909 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. IV. 231 I'm not Disposed to grapple with so great a matter. 'Twould tie my thinker in a double knot And drive me staring mad as any hatter. 1976 D. Jongeward & D. Scott Women as Winners ii. 32 She let her feelings govern her actions, without putting her thinker in gear. 1999 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 7 Mar. f2 I have been in a sexless marriage for more than 14 years, and I definitely do not have a ‘clinker in my thinker’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1435
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