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单词 courtier
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courtiern.1

Brit. /ˈkɔːtɪə/, /ˈkɔːtjə/, U.S. /ˈkɔrdiər/
Forms: Middle English courteour(e, Middle English kourteour, Middle English courtyour, courteyer, courteer, coortyowre, cowrtyoure, corteore, Middle English–1500s courtyer, 1500s courtyar, courter, courture, cortier, 1500s– courtier.
Etymology: apparently representing an Anglo-Norman *corte(i)our = Old French *cortoyeur , < cortoyer to be at or frequent the court: see court v.
1.
a. One who frequents the court of a sovereign; an attendant at court.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > courtier
hired-gomec1275
courtierc1290
court-manc1386
gentlemanc1400
curial1447
courtnoll1568
gentleman-at-large1583
courty1606
courtling1616
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 114/254 A-ȝen þe proute courteoures.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 342 My fader..knew of kourt þe þewes, for kourteour was he long.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) ii. lii. 372 Prelates of causes temporall, courteers, Iurrours, and wily men.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 42 Reynard the foxe is now a squyer and a courtyer.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 105 To many courtyarys & idul servantys.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii 57 Thou wouldst make an absolute Courtier . View more context for this quotation
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 535 A delicate Courtier, curious in her habites..did all things fit for a Court, as well as any braue Lady could doe.
1716 J. Gay in M. W. Montagu Court Poems 21 False is the crafty Courtier's plighted word.
1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey (1848) ix. 122 Chaucer was a courtier, and a companion of princes.
b. transferred.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 85 That youth's a rare Courtier . View more context for this quotation
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 22 We have now a new vicar, and I must turn courtier in my old age.
c. English History.
ΚΠ
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 126 The new parliament consisted of courtiers, as the Cromwell party were always denominated.
d. A court-card. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > picture-card
coat-card1563
coated card1566
coat1589
court-card1641
courtier1658
face1674
picture card1707
faced-card1708
pictured card?1770
face carda1804
1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1673) 179 A Courtier kept out, and a mean trump foisted in, where the best is required.
2. One who courts; a wooer. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > one who endeavours or attempts > to obtain or attain
student1545
suitor1548
studier1566
courtiera1616
speller1796
courter1830
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer
papelard1340
placeboc1395
fawnerc1440
pickthank1460
adulator?a1475
earwigc1475
curry-favel1515
men-pleaser1526
gnatho1533
upcreeperc1540
claw-back1549
curry-favourer1563
man-pleaser1564
claw-poll1569
please-man1570
sycophant1575
curry-favour1577
capper1587
insinuator1598
clawera1603
scrape-shoe1607
suck-fist1611
courtiera1616
foot lickera1616
fleerera1627
wriggler1631
fawn1635
limberham1689
toad-eater1742
tuft-hunter1755
arse-kisser1766
sleeve-creeper1809
lick-spit1822
lickspittle1825
shoe-licker1826
toady1826
toad1831
toader1842
bootlicker1846
bootlick1849
favour-currier1855
lubricator1872
bum-sucker1877
handshaker1884
suck1900
mbongo1911
sucker-up1911
apple-polisher1918
snurge1933
ass-licker1939
brown-nose1939
brown-noser1942
arse-licker1951
ass-kisser1951
greaser1959
suck-hole1966
suck-up1970
bumboy1984
fly-
the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > one who courts or woos
wooerc1000
company-keeper1554
suitor?1555
love-maker1581
squire1590
courter1611
chevalier1630
Protestant1648
suitorer1688
cavalier1752
courtier1766
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking hand in marriage > one who
wooerc1000
pursuivant1523
suitor?1555
requirant1567
soliciterc1592
courter1611
pretendera1625
pretendant1625
addressor1669
addresser1683
courtier1766
pursuer1823
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vi. 17 Courtiers of beautious freedome. View more context for this quotation
a1642 J. Suckling Lett. Divers Eminent Personages 93 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) There was not among all our Princes a greater Courtier of the People than Richard the third.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. sig. Mm2v Courtiers of Applause.
1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. v. 167 The husband generally proves a very different man from the courtier.

Compounds

courtier-company; courtier-like adj. and adv.
ΚΠ
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Cortegianesco, courtier-like.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 268 Courtier-like dainty Courtship.
1735 Coll. Epigrams cclvii He courtier-like cry'd, prythee, get thee gone.
1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer III. 503 A spirit of courtierlike adulation.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 42 The courtier-company, to whom he passed The paper.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

courtiern.2

Forms: Also courteer.
Etymology: < court n.2
Obsolete.
The driver of the cart called a ‘court’.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of cart > of specific type of cart
drayman1581
courtier1630
truck-man1787
wherry-driver?1881
1630 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For breade and beere for the courtiers that brought in our bricke and tyles iijd.
1638 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For the courteer to drinke ijd.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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