单词 | diter |
释义 | † ditern. Obsolete. 1. One who indites; author, writer, composer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] bookerOE writerOE makerc1350 authora1382 inditera1387 pena1398 poetc1400 bookmakera1425 ditera1425 compilera1500 compositor?1533 book writer1565 penner1568 authorizera1579 bookwright1583 scribe1584 epistler1592 penman1592 scriptora1600 composer1603 book-breeder1605 comprisor?1623 volumist1641 scrivenera1660 literatist1660 knight of the quill1692 belletrist1816 scriever1825 creative writer1854 penworker1876 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Esther viii. 9 The dyteris and writeris of the kyng weren clepid. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xxiii. 1 A pleasaunt dyter of songes of Israel. 1585 Animadversions Kirk in J. Melvill Diary (1842) 234 For the Saxt Act, the dytter thairof apeires to be verie cairfull. 2. An orator, rhetorician. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches ditera1387 fair speakera1398 speakerc1400 pronouncer?a1425 orator?a1439 oratrice1565 oratress1587 rhetor1588 oratrix?1592 tongue-man1594 tonguesman1596 public speaker1646 holder-forth1661 tub-minister1662 spokesman1663 addresser1665 tub-drubbera1704 speech-maker1710 speecher1762 orationer1765 speechifiera1777 mob-orator1814 perorator1827 elocutionist1847 tub-orator1849 spokester1850 patterer1851 platformer1851 oratist1860 stem-winder1875 addressor1897 pep talker1925 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 373 Advoketes and ditoures [L. oratores]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 163 Of þis happe spekeþ a dytour [Caxt. or ret[or]ycyon, L. exclamator quidam.] 3. A summoner, indicter. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > one who accuses of crime > indicter diter1303 indictera1500 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 338 What shal we sey of þys dytours..þat for hate a trewman wyl endyte. c1400–20 Judicium (1822) 6 Of backbytars and fals quest dytars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1303 |
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