| 释义 |
visiter Now rare.|ˈvɪzɪtə(r)|
Also 6 vycytar.
[f. visit v. + -er.]
1. = visitor 2 a and 2 b.
1382Wyclif 2 Macc. iii. 39 He that in heuens hath dwellyng, is visiter and helper of that place. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 822 He is also a visiter and punisher of sinne vpon the wicked.
2. = visitor 1.
1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. 185 These Jacobites..be esteemed to make about 160000 families, or rather 50000, as Leonard the bishop of Sidon, the popes visiter in those parts hath recorded. 1691Baxter Nat. Ch. v. 21 The Scots had at first a General visiter, that was really a General Bishop. 1830De Quincey Bentley Wks. 1863 VI. 75 Her Majesty was the true visiter of Trinity College.
3. = visitor 3.
1592Greene Conny Catch. iii. 30 Country Gentlemen haue many visiters both with neere dwelling neighbours, and freends that iourney from farre. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 13 We doe moreover shorten our own time, fooling the greatest part of our best houres away among a company of pratling visiters. 1668Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 10 She yesterday..kept her bed yet admitted visiters in the afternoone. 1727Swift What passed in Lond. Wks. 1755 III. i. 184 It was observed too, that he had few visiters that day. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. v, Tell me, Sophy, my dear, what do you think of our new visiter? 1773Mrs. Chapone Improv. Mind (1774) II. 44 The empty compliments of a visiter. 1796–7Jane Austen Pride & Prej. xi. (1813) 225 On the very morning after their own arrival at Lambton these visiters came. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Scenes xxv, A squalid-looking woman [in Newgate prison]..was communicating some instructions to her visiter—her daughter evidently.
fig.1799R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora I. 90 The sudden and unwelcome intrusion of his old visiter, the gout, obliged him to alter his determination.
transf.1756(title), The Universal Visiter and Memorialist.
4. = visitor 4 and 4 b.
1843Yarrell Brit. Birds III. 386 The Terns..are summer visiters to this country. 1851Catal. Gt. Exhib. iii. 729 Immense mirrors..occupy a prominent position, which must render them appreciable to every visiter. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 671/2 The chief object of every Meccan..being to pillage the visiter in every possible way. |