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单词 addresser
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addressern.

Brit. /əˈdrɛsə/, U.S. /əˈdrɛsər/, /æˈdrɛsər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: address v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < address v. + -er suffix1. Compare Old French adreciere (1243) and adreceor (14th cent.; Middle French adresseur ), both in sense ‘someone who orders or governs’. With sense 3 compare earlier addressor n. 2. With sense 4 compare earlier addressing machine n. at addressing n. Compounds. Compare earlier addresseress n.
1. Politics. A person who puts forward or supports a political declaration or petition (cf. address n. 2c); spec. any of those who in 1680 presented addresses in support of Charles II, and against those demanding the summoning of Parliament (opposed to petitioner n. 1b). historical in later use.
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the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > in writing
bill-maker1529
addresser1643
addressor1806
1643 R. Gentilis tr. G. Diodati Pious Annot. Holy Bible xliv. 37/1 Angels; who are as it were addressers in Gods councell concerning the deliverance of his Church.
1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 100 The addressers..adjourned to the Divill tavern, and there signed the addresse.
1707 F. Grant (title) The patriot resolved, in a letter to an addresser, from his friend; of the same sentiments with himself; concerning the union.
1775 J. Sewall Cure for Spleen 30 An unfortunate addresser having a cow, sent her over to his neighbour, a deacon, who was the owner of a bull..; but the pious deacon, animated with a holy zeal against Lord North and Gov. Hutchinson.., swore his bull should not bull a tory cow.
1849 G. L. Craik et al. Pict. Hist. Eng. V. i. i. 235 This paper..expressed the deepest concern of the addressers at the unjustifiable proceedings of some of his majesty's colonies in America, and entire disapprobation and abhorrence of these acts of rebellion.
1863 R. Young Poet. Wks. 120 (note) Thomas White, ancestor of the Redhill family in the County Cavan. His signature is the tenth of the addressers of King William and Queen Mary.
1880 E. Ryerson Loyalists Amer. & their Times (ed. 2) II. 135 The ‘addressers’, ‘petitioners’, ‘congratulators’, and ‘obnoxious Loyalists’, who were proscribed, and who suffered the loss of their property (in South Carolina) were 170 in number.
1904 O. Airy Charles II (new ed.) v. 389 Hyde put the matter with coarse incisiveness; the petitioners, he said, spit in the King's face, the addressers in the King's mouth.
2000 S. Poole Politics Regicide in Eng., 1760–1850 iv. 83 The failure to read petitions was certainly a scandalous affront to contractualism, but as a number of loyal addressers pointed out, it had also proved to be extremely hazardous to the King.
2. A person who directs words or a communication to a particular person, audience, or place.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches
ditera1387
fair speakera1398
speakerc1400
pronouncer?a1425
orator?a1439
oratrice1565
oratress1587
rhetor1588
oratrix?1592
tongue-man1594
tonguesman1596
public speaker1646
holder-forth1661
tub-minister1662
spokesman1663
addresser1665
tub-drubbera1704
speech-maker1710
speecher1762
orationer1765
speechifiera1777
mob-orator1814
perorator1827
elocutionist1847
tub-orator1849
spokester1850
patterer1851
platformer1851
oratist1860
stem-winder1875
addressor1897
pep talker1925
society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > one who addresses letters
addresser1799
1665 G. Mackenzie Moral Ess. 66 How many frequent persons, who laugh at that simplicity which the addresser admires in himself as wit, and yet both recreat themselves with double laughters?
1799 F. Lathom Men & Manners IV. v. 25 The style of the letter seemed to bespeak the addresser and addressed to be on intimate terms.
1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. May 395/1 Reader, the generous person, to whom this Letter goes addressed, is ‘Mr. Edmund Cave, at St. John's Gate, London’; the addresser of it is Samuel Johnson, in Birmingham, Warwickshire.
1844 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 30 July (1874) II. xi. 86 As an addresser of the lower orders..he has no existing equal.
1901 Humeston (Iowa) New Era 4 Dec. 7/4 As a word to be used in place of ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs.’, when the addresser is ignorant of the state of the person addressed, the Springfield Republican suggests a word of which ‘Ms.’ is the abbreviation.
1986 R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk vii. 223 Roman Jakobson's isolation of ‘addresser’ and ‘addressee’ within his well known account of the elements of communication.
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Apr. (Features section) 2 Britain is a nation of shoddy addressers—lines are askew or stamps have been stuck over words.
3. A suitor; = addressor n. 2. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking hand in marriage > one who
wooerc1000
pursuivant1523
suitor?1555
requirant1567
soliciterc1592
courter1611
pretendera1625
pretendant1625
addressor1669
addresser1683
courtier1766
pursuer1823
1683 Englands Vanity 52 How far they [sc. women] impose on the folly & indiscretion of such Addressers, who should respect more the outward Niceties, than the inward Virtues, and Court rather the Cloaths than the Woman.
1730 J. Thomson Sophonisba i. i. 2 Young Masinissa, the Massylian king, The first addresser of my youth; for whom My bosom felt a fond beginning wish.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) II. xvii. 105 It is dangerous to be laid under the sense of an obligation to an addresser's patience.
1811 I. Mitchell Short Acct. Courtship of Alonzo & Melissa I. iii. 97 You have..disobeyed my strict injunctions, and most positive commands, by discarding the Count Hubert, and receiving, as your addresser, a man without property, fame, or character.
4. An office machine which automatically prints addresses. Cf. addressograph n. Now rare.
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society > communication > printing > miscellaneous printers' equipment > [noun] > machine for printing addresses
addressing machine1860
addresser1877
addressograph1894
1877 U.S. Patent 191,449 1/1 I..have invented certain new and useful improvements in Mailing-Addressers for Newspapers, Circulars, and other mailable matter.
1924 Office Equip. July 27/2 Many companies..have found an addressing machine of the utmost value... With the ‘Addressamite’, for instance, which is a hand addresser, stencils can be cut on any typewriter.
1989 H. F. Mosher Stranger in Kingdom i. 32 He could fix any machine on the premises from his own mind-bogglingly complex Mergenthaler linotype to the archaic hand-cranked addresser.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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