单词 | englisher |
释义 | Englishern. 1. An English citizen; a native or inhabitant of England. Cf. Englander n.Predominantly applied to the English (originally in Scottish use); not a self-designation. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England EnglishmaneOE EnglishOE startc1438 Southron1488 Englander1610 knife-man1643 Englisher1652 southern1721 John Bull1772 Saxon1810 Sassenach1815 rosbif1826 Goddam1830 Angrezi1866 Angrez1877 Percy1916 Limey1918 woodbine1918 homie1926 kipper1946 1652 in D. Robertson S. Leith Rec. (1911) 94 The South Church of Leith..(which is now in the power of the Englishers). a1712 G. Martine Reliquiæ Divi Andreae (1797) ii. 10 Within twentie two years as some Englishers grant. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vi. 114 The young Englisher should pay dearly for the contempt with which he seemed to regard him. View more context for this quotation 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. xiii. 160 William the Bastard could scarce have found the hardy Englishers so easy a conquest as [etc.]. 1932 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 4 Dec. 15/3 They were poor and looked like staying so; the Englisher grew richer every year. 1975 S. Selvon Moses Ascending 59 Sometimes in these shops you come across an Englisher who spend a day in India and feel he know all about massala and papadum. 2002 C. Slaughter Before Knife (2003) xvi. 247 She's a bush girl; she's one of us now. It's too late to try and turn her into an Englisher. 2. A person who translates books, etc., into English. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates > into English Englisher1662 1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme 1st Apologie to B. Tylcken 1 (heading) in tr. J. Böhme Remainder of Bks. The Englishers Preface to J. B's. Apologies. 1698 G. Ridpath Stage Condemn'd vi. 50 It's plain, that the Paris Dr. or his Translator make Aquinas say what he never intended... It seems nothing is Criminal with the Parisian Dr. or his Englisher, except they give them their whole Estates. 1763 Apol. for Monthly Rev. 55 We subjoined such a commentary, as testified the justice we wished done at once to the Author and Englisher. 1800 Monthly Mag. 10 319 The most fortunate englisher of Klopstock. 1879 F. J. Furnivall Rep. Early Eng. Text Soc. 8 The englisher of the French Romance, probably a clergyman of..Exeter. 1983 Past & Present 100 30 For the author or Englisher of the so-called Lay Folks' Mass Book..‘the worthiest thing, most of goodness in all this world, it is the Messe’. 2006 M. Morini Tudor Transl. ii. iv. 118 Edward Fairfax, a Yorkshire scholar and gentleman who is almost exclusively known as the Englisher of Tasso. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652 |
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