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subduer|səbˈdjuːə(r)|
[f. subdue v. + -er1.]
A person who or a thing which subdues, in the various senses of the verb.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) D iv, Thus were they..by death subduers of their owne corps carnall. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 73 The ald Romanis, subdueris of the Warlde. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. 39/2 Ostorius..Subduer of great Caractacus. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments (1736) 253 Figs are great subduers of Acrimony. 1747Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. ii. 15 With some of the sex, insolent controul is a more efficacious subduer than kindness or concession. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 322 By the laws of nature the occupant and subduer of the soil is the true proprietor. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. i. v, It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 191 Such was He, the Subduer of all which exalted itself. 1900Duke of Argyll Autobiogr. (1906) II. 85 The subduer of a fierce enemy and the saviour of India. |