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单词 discutant
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discutantn.

Brit. /ˈdɪskjᵿt(ə)nt/, /dᵻˈskjuːt(ə)nt/, U.S. /dᵻˈsk(j)udənt/, /ˈdɪsk(j)udənt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin discutere , -ant suffix1.
Etymology: Ultimately < classical Latin discutere discuss v. (compare discute v.) + -ant suffix1.With use in medicine in sense 1 compare earlier discussive n., discutient n., discusser n. 2. With sense 2 compare earlier discute v.; compare also discussant n. and earlier discusser n.
1. Medicine. = discutient n. Obsolete. rare.In extended use in quot. 1831.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine resolving or dispersing
resolutivea1400
resolver?a1450
digester1578
discussive1583
discutient1585
discusser1617
resolvent1676
incider1722
incisive1726
incident1753
discutant1817
1817 J. H. Steel Anal. Mineral Waters Saratoga & Ballston 72 Excepting as a source of cleanliness, (which may be found in any other water) it possesses no very important properties as a discutant.
1831 P. Porteus Civil Campaigns Old Grey 47 A pair of clouted, tacketed, cuddy-heeled shoon, that had never undergone a discutant of Day and Martin's renovating liquid.
2. A person who discusses something; a participant in a discussion; = discussant n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] > person engaged in
mooterOE
arguer1377
discusser?1546
canvasser1599
argumentator1635
discursist1645
motionist1650
tongue-fencer1675
argufier1805
discussionist1833
discutant1847
discussant1855
ventilator1891
1847 T. Sedgwick Treat. Meas. Damages x. 303 No small portion of it is devoted to refuting other glossators and discutants of similar questions.
1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 166 The contrast between the half-frank discutant and the unctuous but immoral dignitary discussed.
1922 Med. Standard Aug. 10/1 One of the discutants declared that any table..should be submitted to a competent group of lawyers.
1992 B. Sewell in Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 Nov. 26 My female discutants upon the matter proposed equivalents..in the hats and maquillage of Barbara Cartland.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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