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detractor|dɪˈtræktə(r)|
Also 4–7 -tour, 5 -towre, 6–8 -ter, 6 Sc. detrakker.
[a. AFr. detractour = OF. detracteur, ad. L. dētractor, agent-noun from dētrahĕre (see detract v.): see -or.]
1. One who detracts from another's merit or reputation by uttering things to his prejudice; a person given to detraction; a defamer, traducer, calumniator, slanderer.
1382Wyclif Rom. i. 30 Detractouris, or opyn bacbyteris. 1474Caxton Chesse ii. v. D viij b, They ben..right mordent and bytyng detractours. 1537Inst. Chr. Man in Formul. Faith M iv, The detractour is not glad to tell, but to hym, that is glad to here. 1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 9 To confound ignorant detrakkers. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 108/1 A malicious detractor of Gregorie. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man iv. (1603) 287 Instead of favourers he shall have detracters. 1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 147 You will not suffer your selfe to be perswaded by the reports of detractors. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xxi. 577 That which a Friend would excuse..or Wink at..the Detractor publishes without sparing or Reserve. 1755Johnson, Detracter. 1858Doran Crt. Fools 51 Every fashion has its detractors. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 281 The detractor preys on his brother's flesh.
†b. Const. from. Obs. (Cf. detract v. 3 c.)
1599Marston Sco. Villanie iv. 151 Vaine enuious detractor from the good. a1610Healey Epictetus (1636) Life, Lucian..a perpetual detractor from all the Philosophers. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 141 If Sabinianus were so malitious a detractor from the works of St. Gregory. 1829Landor Wks. (1868) I. 160/2 It exhibits him as a detractor from Shakspeare.
‖2. Anat. A depressor muscle. [prop. mod.L.] ? Obs.
1811Hooper Med. Dict. s.v. 1823Crabbe Technol. Dict., Detractor..a muscle whose office it is to draw down the part to which it is attached. 1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Detractor..old name for a muscle whose office is to draw the part to which it is attached away from some other part. |