单词 | describer |
释义 | describern. A person who describes something or someone. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > one who describes descriptor1528 describer?1550 painter1570 presenter1608 delineator1631 imagera1680 detailer1794 descriptionist1819 pictorialist1839 word-painter1839 delineatress1848 ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. xviii The descrybers of yt primatiue church, Egesippus & Eusebius. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 2 Pomponius Mela, the describer of the world. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Lactantius in tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits To Rdr. p. xxii Let him Read Seneca; the most lively Describer of Publick Vices..and the smartest Reprehender of them. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 49 Our wise Describers of the Magick of the Ancients. 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. ii. 46 This author is a topographist, or describer of a particular country. 1842 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 109 The name originally given by the founder of a group or the describer of a species should be permanently retained. 1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. v. 160 The historical describer has always to regret that he must show events not..simultaneously..but in succession. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxvii. 530 The name given to it by its first describer will be in Latin or a latinized form, and consist of two words. 2000 Z. Sardar Consumption Kuala Lumpur 134 Quite how one explains Malay Islam tells as much about the orientation of the describer as about Malay religious ideas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1550 |
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