α. 1500s discoursour, 1600s discoursor.
β. 1500s– discourser.
单词 | discourser |
释义 | discoursern.α. 1500s discoursour, 1600s discoursor. β. 1500s– discourser. A person who discourses (in various senses), or who engages in a discourse; a speaker, an orator, a lecturer; a conversationalist; (also) the author of a discourse or treatise. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] mathelereOE mouthOE speaker1303 sayer1340 outera1415 utterer1509 handler1534 trumpet1549 discourser1564 deliverer1580 linguist1612 vocalist1613 sermocinator1623 sermocinatrix1623 articulator1651 worder1654 voice1667 stringer1774 tonguer1822 vocalizer1830 locutor1858 outspeaker1858 speaker-hearer1965 speaker-listener1965 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a discourse or lecture > one who discourses or lectures discourser1564 descanter1610 conferencier1884 chalk-talker1888 1564 Briefe Exam. **iij b There are much paynes bestowed of these discoursours. 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Avjv These discoursers that vse the word of God with as little conscience as they doe Machiavel. 1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel vii. 166 An idle discourser, that mooueth questions, that bee not to purpose. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 300 Some few particulars..worthy a much more ample discourse, and a..better informed discourser. 1713 R. Bentley Remarks Late Disc. Freethinking xxxii. 68 Our Discourser here has quoted Nine Verses out of it. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 287 It behoves the discourser upon religious matters to consider the importance of his principal point. 1815 H. H. Milman Fazio ii. i. 20 An apt discourser upon things of honour, Professor of art panegyrical. 1884 R. W. Church Bacon iii. 62 Perhaps she distrusted in business and state affairs so brilliant a discourser. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 643/2 Mr. So-and-So is admittedly a clever, polished and urbane discourser; but he cannot be omniscient. 1954 W. L. Wiley Gentleman of Renaissance France v. 86 These are all persons who tell and discuss the stories in the Heptaméron. Most of the discoursers are identifiable as actual persons. 2008 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 27 Oct. 16 A gurulike discourser drawing upon shamanism, folk beliefs, hermetic philosophy and Jung. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1564 |
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