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ˈringleader
Also 6 ryngledre, -leder, ryng(e)leader; ringeleeder, -leader; ringleder, Sc. -leidar.
[f. the phrase to lead the ring: see ring n.1 10 b.]
1. One who takes a leading place or part among a body or number of persons whose character or conduct is reprehensible; esp. a leader, a chief instigator or organizer, of a mutiny, tumult, etc.
1503Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 238, I dout not but..we shalbe able by good polici to distrii alle the captayns and ryngledres that be of yll and contrary mynde. 1535Coverdale 1 Macc. ix. 61 Ionathas toke L. men of the countre (which were the ryngleders of them) & slewe them. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 73 b, The chiefe ringleader of the Anabaptistes boasted of Reueilations. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xi. (1614) 400 He allured the men of his owne countrey vnto him, who followed him as their Ring-leader to doe mischiefe. 1675Essex Papers (Camden) I. 292 There is one Philpott a Haberdasher, who..hath bin y⊇ Principall Ringleader of these seditious people. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 271 The Boatswain, who was the principal Ringleader of the Mutiny. 1759Franklin Ess. Wks. 1840 III. 462 Becoming a promoter and ringleader of such an insult on that part of the government. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) iv. Introd., The conspiracy is so nicely balanced among them that I shall never be able to detect the ring-leader. 1867J. Hatton Tallants of Barton iv, He had been the ring⁓leader in everything wicked for years.
fig.1633R. S. tr. Drexelius' Nicetas i. vii. §2. 55 The enticers to vice and ringleaders to wickednesse are the eyes.
†2. In good or neutral sense: A leader or head; a chief authority. Obs.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John vii. 57 b, Among the ryngleaders of religion. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Ephes. 8 b, Some he would haue to be chief, as Apostles, ryng leaders & autours of the Gospel preaching. 1581J. Bell Haddon's answ. Osor. 81 b, There is greater cause rather to move us..who have lost so great and learned a ryngleader of learning. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 669 Garter is the principall King of Armes..and goeth first as the onely ring-leader of them all. 1638A. Read Chirurg. xxiii. 169 Amongst the Ancients Galen shall bee the ring leader. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. Epist. ii. 376 Those famous men the Ring-leaders of this opinion.
fig.1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iv. (1577) T iij b, The life of the Prince is a lawe and ringleader of Citizens. 1588Churchyard Spark of Friendship C ij, As a man might say, friendship is a ring-leader to all happinesse.
Hence ˈringleadership.
1884J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 126 The charges of pestilence, sedition, ringleadership, profanity, are only pure and simple lies. |