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queller|ˈkwɛlə(r)|
[OE. cwellere = ON. kveljari: see quell v.1 and -er1.]
One who quells, in senses of the vb.
Freq. as a second element in combs., e.g. boy-, child-, devil-, giant-, manqueller.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. vii. (1890) 38 Se sylfa cwellere ðe hine slean sceolde. c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark vi. 27 Se cinincg..sende ænne cwellere. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 37/116 [To] Iosie þe quellare he was bi-take. 1388Wyclif Tobit iii. 9 Thou sleeresse [v.r. quellere] of thin hosebondis. c1520Barclay Jugurtha (ed. 2) 48 The ioye of the quellars and murderers. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 633 Hail Son of the most High..Queller of Satan. 1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 219 The promoters and quellers of the Wexford insurrection. 1881Seeley Bonaparte in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 168/2 The queller of Jacobinism..Bonaparte. |