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vaunt-courier|ˈvɔːnt-, ˈvɑːntˌkʊərɪə(r)|
Forms: α. 6 vantcorrour, -currour, -curor, 6–8 -curror, 7 -curreur, -currer; 6 vauntcurrour, 7 -curror, 6–7 vauntcurrer. β. 6 vaunte-, 6–7 vauntcurrier, 7 -currior, 6–7 vantcurrier, 7 -curier. γ. 7 vantcourier, vauntcourrier, 7, 9 vauntcourier. δ. 7 vauntcourer, vantcourrer. ε. erron. 7 vaunt carrier.
[ad. F. avant-coureur avant-courier, with assimilation to forms in vant-, vaunt-, and to courier n. Cf. van-courier.]
†1. One of the advance-guard of an army or body of troops; a soldier or horseman sent out in advance of the main body. Usually in pl. Obs.
α1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 433 b, He by his vauntcurrers levied as muche power as he possible mighte. 1569T. Stocker tr. Diod. Sic. ii. x. 55 The vauntcurrers of eche side gaue intelligence of the approch of one an other. 1570R. Hichcock Quintess. Wit 68 b, In the spyes, in the guides, in the vantcorrours, in the principall officers. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. 184 Vpon the head of the battell ranged 200 thousande horsemen in small troupes, like our vantcurrers. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. x. II. 114 On the sodaine one of their Vaunt-currors brought newes of the King's approch. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Wars ix. 50 Some Vantcurrers advancing a little before the Army.
β1579–80North Plutarch, Publicola (1895) I. 275 Lucretius..was appointed to make head against the vaunt⁓curriers of the Sabynes. 1600J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 31 The rebel..deliveringe some few shott out of the woods and ditches upon our vaunt-curriers. a1642Sir F. Kynaston Leoline & Sydanis 1265 How as the swift vant-curriers rode about As sentinell perdue. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 190 Unless the leader look about him in his march and search every hedge by vant-curriers.
γ1609Dekker Gull's Hornbk. Wks. (Grosart) II. 219 Thou dost not only send out the lively spirits, like vaunt⁓couriers, to fortify and make good the uttermost borders of thy body.
δ1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Vauntcourers, fore⁓runners. 1614Raleigh Hist. World v. iii. II. 449 The Carthaginian Horse, and light Armature, fell vpon the Roman Vant-courrers.
ε1677W. Hubbard Narrative 73 A party of Indians..fired upon the front and mortally wounded two of the vaunt Carriers.
2. transf. One who goes or is sent out in advance in order to prepare the way or to announce the approach of another; a forerunner.
α1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 177 And this latter so impugned the supremacie of the Patriarch of Constantinople, that he sticked not to call hym the vaunt⁓currour of Antichrist. 1567Drant Horace, Ep. iii. c v, And those that wil vauntcurrers be Not I wil draw theim backe. 1607Dekker Northward Hoe ii. Wks. 1873 III. 29 Ile send my vant-currer presently. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. ii. xliv. 479 All such as had been vantcurrors in private colleges to enter into this apostasy.
β, γ1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 12 The harbinger, the host, the Steward, the Vauntcourrier. 1606Dekker News from Hell Wks. (Grosart) II. 137 To all which questions the vant curier answers briefly. 1886R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) I. 4 He despatched vaunt-couriers and messengers of glad tidings.
b. Of things.
1598R. Barckley Felic. Man v. (1603) 472 The crying and lamenting of a childe when hee first entereth into this world, doth seeme to presage his painefull life, as a vauntcurrer of his miseries to come. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. ii. 5 You Sulph'rous and Thought-executing Fires, Vaunt-curriors to Oake-cleauing Thunder-bolts. 1639Chapman & Shirley Chabot iii. ii, I will relate to your honours his most cruel exactions upon the subject—the old vantcouriers of rebellions. 1821Milman Fall Jerusalem 39 And gloom of deepest mid⁓night the vaunt-courier Of your dread presence. 1849Longfellow Kavanagh xix, These were the vaunt-couriers and attendants of the hot August. |