单词 | confounder |
释义 | confoundern. One who confounds: a. One who ruins, destroys, overthrows, spoils, discomfits, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys baneOE losera1340 leeserc1380 stroyerc1380 destroyer1382 ravenerc1390 castera1400 confounder1401 wastera1425 stroyc1440 undoerc1440 unmakerc1450 confounderess1509 hydraa1513 stroy-good1540 abolisher1548 thunderbolt1559 disannullera1572 stroy-all1573 ruiner1581 down-puller1583 murdererc1585 spendingc1595 blaster1598 assassin1609 ruinater1609 dissolver1611 minerc1614 destructioner1621 fordoer1631 sinker1632 destructive1640 deletery1642 assassinatea1658 ruinator1658 destroyeress1662 destructora1691 dissolvent1835 solvent1841 wrecker1882 destructant1889 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming > one who > completely confounder1401 profligator1694 crusher1841 disher1892 1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 45 Thou seist we ben confounders of prelates and of lordes. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. Fiij Of saynt Peters, or crystes patrymony Nowe fewe be founders, but confounders be many. 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iv. sig. H3v N. Tell you why sir? Are you my confessor? R. I will be your confounder, if you doe not. [Draws a dagger.] 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 18 What a Confounder of Heresies. 1858 T. De Quincey Secret Societies (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VII. 247 To strive after a conquest over Time the conqueror, to confound the grim confounder. b. One who causes confusion or disorder, who confuses distinctions, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [noun] > one who or that which is indiscriminate confounder1739 lumper1857 impurist1937 scattershot1961 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > confusing or disordering > one who mingle-mangler1550 huddler1611 shuffler1611 confounder1739 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 125 Not Founder, yet Confounder of the Feast. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 16 This confounder of words was himself confounded by twelve answers by nonjurors! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1401 |
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