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单词 death-dispenser
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death-dispenser
(a) With present participial adjectives, as death-bearing, death-boding, death-counterfeiting, death-subduing, death-threatening, etc., and agent nouns, as death-bearer, death-dispenser, etc.
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OE Homily: In Die Iudicii (Cleo. B.xiii) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 188 On muðe and on fæðme þæs deaðberendan dracan, þe is deofol genemned.
a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Josh. Prol. 556 We..owen to ouerpasse with a deef eer the deth berynge [a1425 L.V. dedliche] songis of mermynns.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xi. sig. Oo8 The..summons of the death threatning trumpet.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C1 No noise but Owles, & wolues death-boding cries. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 365 Death-counterfaiting, sleepe. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet (1623) iii. ii. 47 The death darting [1599 arting] eye of Cockatrice.
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart i. ii. sig. B3 Death-brauing Ithocles.
a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) I. 171 Their Death-subduing King.
1797 A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 306 Dr. Darwin's impersonization of that death-breathing gale, in the Botanic Garden.
1821 P. B. Shelley Fugitives iv. 7 As a death-boding spirit.
1861 H. Angus Serm. 150 The death-distilling, tornado-breeding atmospheric stagnation of the tropics.
1891 Longman's Mag. May 59 As a sickness-bearer and a death-bearer it [sc. dust] must be attacked and rendered harmless.
1909 ‘L. Malet’ Score 162 Rather you than me..on board that death-distributing, space-devouring projectile!
1948 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 152/2 The warning gives exposed areas at a distance several hours to evacuate their coasts..before the death-bearing wave arrives.
1976 R. Fly Shakespeare's Mediated World (1977) 21 ‘Romeo, I come!’ Juliet cries as she drinks the Friar's death-counterfeiting potion.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 260 There's a new death-dispenser, Hantavirus, making its sinister rounds.
2011 Fortean Times Mar. 66/1 Some fairly standard Japanese movie furniture—a school setting,..a mobile phone-mediated and death-fetishising youth culture.
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