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disturber|dɪˈstɜːbə(r)|
Also 3–5 -our, 6–9 -or.
[ME. a. AF. destourbour = OF. destorbeor:—L. type *disturbātōr-em, agent-n. from disturbāre to disturb.]
1. A person or thing that disturbs, disquiets, or interferes with peace or quiet; one who causes tumult or disorder; a troubler.
c1290Beket 1102 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 138 He was fals and for-swore: and destourbour of þe londe. 1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 23. §2 Inflicting all such Pains upon the Disobedients and Disturbers [of matrimony]. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. iv. 6 How euer these disturbers of our peace Buz in the peoples eares. 1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 8 That are rather disturbers than aiders of Nature. 1709Wycherley Let. to Pope 1 Apr., There I can have you without Rivals or Disturbers. 1764Wesley Jrnl. 10 Sept., Only one man, a common disturber, behaved amiss. 1883Froude in Contemp. Rev. XLIV. 14 Little inclined..to favour a disturber of the public peace.
2. Law. (also disturbor.) One who disquiets or hinders another in the lawful enjoyment of his right: see esp. quot. 1767.
1498–9Plumpton Corr. 133 To have a spoliacion in the spirituall court agaynst the preyst that now occupyeth, because he is one disturber. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 41 When a Bishop refuses a Clerk for Insufficiency, and the Patron thereupon presents another, such Bishop shall be deemed a Disturber, if he afterwards within the six months presents the first Clerk presented to him. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 278 If the bishop refuse or neglect to examine and admit the patron's clerk, without good reason assigned or notice given, he is stiled a disturber by the law, and shall not have any title to present by lapse. 1865Nichols Britton iv. i. §2 Unless the disturbor or deforceor [le destourbour ou deforceour] can shew plain reasons to the contrary. |