单词 | afflictor |
释义 | afflictorn. = afflicter n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > cause of > person afflictor1572 afflicter1600 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Av Afflictor or tormentor, Afflictator, Vexator. 1588 G. Withers View Marginal Notes Popish Test. 277 The afflictors and persecutors here spoken of, are such as saie themselues to be Iewes. 1640 A. Stafford Honour & Vertue 51 The griefe of the sustainer is doubled by the indignity of the Afflictor. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 440 They slew also Philarches, one of Timotheus side, a most wretched fellow, and a notorious afflictor of the Jews. 1756 J. Bate Enq. Similitudes Lord God 335 Can one help looking on..the Afflictors, or the Afflicted, as predictive of what Ægypt was to be and suffer. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd II. ii. 124 I had soon the satisfaction of setting all to right with the Minister, for the afflictor shot ahead to spread the news in the village. 1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 52 451 Thine own afflictor be! And what of all thy worldly gear Thy deepest heart esteems most dear, Cast into yonder sea! 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey (new ed.) ii. 16 Perhaps Odysseus..in reality hated his panoplied Greeks and did them deliberate injuries; which you now in turn deliberately repay by cheering on my afflictors. 1965 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 78 48 Frequently a relationship is made between the part of the body afflicted and the comment of a suspected afflictor. 1997 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 41 295 The girls named their afflictors and were again supposedly assaulted by those they named. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1572 |
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