单词 | fair speaker |
释义 | fair speakern. Now rare. An eloquent person, an orator. Also: a person whose words are specious or insincere, a flatterer. 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 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lxviii. 764 Men þerof [sc. Grecia] were..fayre and moost grete spekers. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vii. f. cxxvijv This fable of a rethoryque man or fayr speker. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) x. xv. sig. Bijv For he was a fayre speker and fals there vnder. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 17 A fayre speaker, and a deepe dissembler. a1631 J. Donne Wks. (1839) I. 307 If I believe a fair speaker, I have comfort a little while, though he deceive me. 1644 J. Bulwer Chironomia 15 in Chirologia He who customarily useth much action of his Hand, in his talke, is a faire speaker, and neat in his language. 1727 Coll. Misc. Lett. Mist's Weekly Jrnl. III. xxxvii. 182 A..Reproach, from a Subject to his Prince, for suffering himself to be cheated by these fair Speakers. 1855 M. Yvan Six Months among Malays vii. 288 I could almost have fancied myself transported into a legal court of fair speakers, so inspiring was the theme. 1897 D. Nicoll Commonweal 12 He was a fair speaker, and most of his influence was due to this circumstance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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