释义 |
overˈthrower [f. overthrow v. + -er1.] One who overthrows.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 205 He was the ouerthrower and confounder of the house of Lancastre. 1650S. Clarke Eccl. Hist. i. (1654) 8 This is that Doctor of Asia, the Overthrower of our Gods. 1772Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 99/2 The overthrower of Bolingbroke. 1836Lytton Athens (1837) II. 332 Plato rightly considers Ephialtes the true overthrower of the Areopagus. |