| 释义 |
swayer|ˈsweɪə(r)|
[f. sway v. + -er1.]
One who or that which sways, wields, or rules.
1598Florio, Dominatore, a ruler, a gouernor, a lord, a swayer. 1679J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) II. xvii. 325 He is the happiest swayer of a sceptre that ever was. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 178 Pym, Hamden, and Strode were esteemed Parliament-drivers, or Swayers of all the Parliaments wherein they sat. 1832Examiner 773/2 Eloquence and truth united are greater swayers of opinion than either wealth, wigs, or woolsacks. 1853Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 300 To talk loud about the poet's divine mission, as the prophet of mankind, the swayer of the universe, and so forth. |