| 释义 |
disabler|dɪsˈeɪblə(r)|
[f. disable v. + -er1.]
One who or that which disables. (By Puttenham used for the figure meiosis in rhetoric, expressing disparagement: cf. disable v. 3.)
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvii. (Arb.) 195 Such speach is by the figure Meiosis or the disabler spoken of hereafter in the place of sententious figures. Ibid. iii. xix. 227 We call him the Disabler or figure of Extenuation. |