单词 | courtier |
释义 | courtiern.1 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. 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. 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 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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