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temporizer|ˈtɛmpəraɪzə(r)|
Also 6 -our, Sc. -ar, 7 -or.
[Agent-noun f. prec.: cf. F. temporiseur (a 1600 in Littré).]
One who temporizes.
1. One who complies for the time, or yields to the time; a time-server, a ‘trimmer’.
1555R. P[ownoll] tr. Musculus (title) The Temporisour (that is to say, the Observer of Tyme) translated into Inglishe. 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. To Rdr., Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 53 Werray finȝeit hypocritis, and temperizaris with the tyme contrare thair conscience. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1885/1 One by iudgement reformed, is more worth then a thousand transformed temporizers. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 302 A mindlesse Slaue, Or else a houering Temporizer. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 290 They would neuer be dissembling temporisors. 1710Norris Chr. Prud. ii. 101 The Policy of Temporizers, men that steer their course by the compass of Worldly Interests. 1812Shelley Address Prose Wks. 1888 I. 258 The dangers which lie beneath the footsteps of the hypocrite or temporizer.
2. One who seeks to gain time; a procrastinator, delayer; one who waits for a favourable time.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 370 Like unto that auncient and warie temporizer [Q. Fabius Maximus]. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xxix. 383 Doth Satan play the temporizer and time all his suggestions? 1736Gentl. Mag. VI. 469/1 The famous Advice..which ought to be observed by all Temporizers; viz. Time was; Time is: but take Care to lay hold on the Opportunity before the Time is past. |