单词 | alterer |
释义 | alterern. A person who or thing which alters something. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [noun] > one who or that which changes alterera1525 turncoat1567 a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 736 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 118 Haile alterare of eua in aue but vre. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxcv. 1214 They themselues were the alterers of Gods order. 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations 551 We take it for granted..that every first Mover or Alterer is together with that thing which is moved or altered by it. 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 115 If it be an alterer only. 1702 R. Pitt Craft Physick Expos'd 140 All the Alterers of the Blood.., and all the Vomitives and Purgatives. 1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Chron. 168/2 He was the alterer of Antony and Cleopatra, acted at Drury-Lane. 1855 Eclectic Mag. Sept. 661/1 The alterer admitted himself, in conversation, that he had spoiled Vanburgh's play. 1890 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 29 Mar. (advt.) G. K. Ebling, Practical Horse Alterer... Horses altered while standing or lying. 1916 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 26 245 Congresses have been most successful when they have acted as makers and alterers of the Constitution of Europe. 1956 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 10 Oct. 3/9 (advt.) Alterer (female)—Work on men's and women's clothes, must be experienced sewer and must wait on customers. 2003 J. Sturrock Structuralism (ed. 2) 24 Episodic alterations to a text may affect it elsewhere, in ways unsuspected by the alterer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1525 |
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