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▪ I. burglar, n.|ˈbɜːglə(r)|
Also 6 burglour, burghlar, burgleyer, 7 burglare, -layer.
[Found in AFr. in 16th c.: ad. Anglo-Lat. burglator (13th c.), burgulator (16th c.), altered form of burgator (13th c.), perhaps f. the first element of burgh-breche, the native Eng. term for burglary. The Anglo-Lat. verb burgulare (quasi ‘to burgle’) is recorded in 1354 (Assis. 27 Edw. III, quoted in Reeves Hist. Eng. Law ed. Finlason II. 419). The 13th c. AF. word for ‘burglar’, burgesour, burgeysour, is of obscure formation, but of the same ultimate origin. The related burglary is in legal AF. burglarie, in Anglo-Lat. burgaria, burgeria (early 13th c.), for which burglaria is found in 16th c. The origin of the intrusive l, in burglator, burglaria, and the corresponding Eng. forms, is not clear; but the notion of Lambarde (1581) and later writers that the ending -lar represents AF. ler-s, laroun (:—L. ˈlatro, laˈtrōnem) thief, is contrary to the evidence. A ‘burglator’ or ‘burgesour’ was not necessarily a ‘latro’; his object might be something else than plunder.
No corresponding words are known in continental OF. or med.L.; the rare OF. burger ‘saccager, piller’ (Godef.), occurring in Garnier's Vie de Saint Thomas, is unconnected, unless perhaps this sense of the word may be due to AF. influence.]
1. One who is guilty of burglary.
[a1268Bracton De Legibus (Rolls ed.) II. 234 fo. 115 b, Murdritores & robbatores & burglatores. c1287Fleta i. xvi. (ed. 1685 p. 15) Tempus autem discernit prædonem a fure & a Burgatore. 1292Britton i. xi, De Burgeysours...Tenoms a burgesours trestouz ceux, qi felounousement en tens de pes brusent eglises, ou autri mesouns, ou murs ou portes de nos citez ou de nos burgs. 1516in Fitzherbert Graunde Abridgement 268 b, Burglers sont ceux que entrent mesons ou eglises al entent de inbloier beins.] 1541tr. Fitzherbert's New Bk. Justyces 125 b, Burglours are properly such as felonously in y⊇ tyme of peace breke any house, church, etc. 1581Lambarde Eiren. i. xxi. 221 A Burglour whom Britton calleth a Burgessor..that by night breaketh into a house, wyth intent to Robbe, Kill or doe other Felonie [ed. 1582 has burglour, burglar; 1588 burghlar passim]. 1599Broughton's Lett. v. 15 In Moses law he that had slaine a Burgleyer by night had been guiltles. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xv. 358 A common burglayer will passe by quietly things that lie open. 1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1768/4 This day were apprehended..two persons suspected to be notorious Burglars and Robbers. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 224 The definition of a burglar, as given us by sir Edward Coke, is, ‘he that by night breaketh and entreth into a mansion-house, with intent to commit a felony’. 1860G. K. Vacat. Tour 140 Still the thing looks well, and might..prevent a particularly conscientious burglar from breaking in.
2. Comb., as burglar-alarm, burglar-season; also burglar-proof adj., also attrib.
1840in M. D. Leggett Index Pat. Inventions (1874) 173 *Burglar-alarm, L. E. Denison, Saybrook, Conn., Oct. 22, 1840, 1,835. 1877Telegraphic Jrnl. V. 19/1 The application of the magneto-electric current for..burglar alarms. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 93/2 Bells, Burglar Alarms, Lightning Conductors. 1889Cent. Dict., Burglar-alarm lock, a lock having an attachment which when set will sound an alarm if the bolt is improperly moved. 1963B.S.I. News Apr. 10/1 Bad news for burglars is BSI's decision to give burglar alarm systems some close attention.
1856Spirit of Times 13 Dec. 247/3 Manufacturers of..*Burglar Proof Safes for stores and dwelling houses. 1882Daily News 24 May 7/6 Stock of second-hand Fire-and-Burglar-proof Safes.
1886Pall Mall G. 4 Sept. 3/2 The *burglar season has set in.
▪ II. burglar, v.|ˈbɜːglə(r)|
[f. the n.]
a. trans. To steal (goods) or rob (a place) as a burglar.
b. intr. To commit a burglary. Cf. burgle v. Hence ˈburglared, ˈburglaring ppl. adjs.
1890M. W. Hungerford Born Coquette II. xiii. 128 He certainly burglared Nan. He broke into the house..and stole her away. 1890Mercury (Tasmania) 27 Dec., A news agency..was burglared yesterday morning. 1896‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 345/2 They used to hear about him robbing and burglaring now and then. 1909Daily Chron. 31 Aug. 1/2 ‘Raffles’ remains a more endeared and far more possible character than the burglaring ‘Duke’. 1919W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor (1920) iv. 76 He..got alarmed when busy burglaring. 1928Sunday Dispatch 22 July 12/4 The burglared shop. |