expectern.

Brit.

/ᵻkˈspɛktə/,

/ɛkˈspɛktə/, U.S.

/ᵻkˈspɛktər/,

/ɛkˈspɛktər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: expect v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < expect v. + -er suffix¹. Compare earlier expector n.

1. A person who expects something (in various senses of the verb).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun] > one who expects or anticipates

expector1584

expectant1588

anticipator1598

expecter1610

anticiparian1641

expectaltee1654

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xxxv. 723 Hee [sc. Christ] must..be desired of the expecters [L. vt enim desideratus esset, & expectandus cunctis gentibus].

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy Pref. sig. A5^v I am not..any expecter of a Reign of nothing but Saints and Worthies.

1783 W. Davy tr. Timūr Inst. Polit. & Mil. ii. 269 I appointed another person, who on the death of the first should succeed to his rank and dignity; and him I entitled an Expecter of Preferment.

1825 Pocket Mag. Classic & Polite Lit. 2 215 Expecters of fat livings, valuable sinecures, and rich reversions, may haply be taught to check the indecorous ardor of eager hope.

1882 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 360 The new schooner Lenore, though expected to be going to do great things, rather disappointed the expecters.

1917 W. Owen Let. 17 July in Sel. Lett. (1998) 262 The hundred and one expecters of my letters.

2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 15 Apr. 16 The expecters (and wanters) of the worst in relation to Iraq must lead miserable lives.

2. Church History. Chiefly in plural. Often with capital initial. A member of a 17th-cent. radical religious group that rejected the institutional church and its scriptures and sacraments in expectation of a miraculous event which would restore the true apostolic church. Cf. seeker n. 1b.

ΚΠ

1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 2) 141 Many have wrangled so long about the Church, that at last they have quite lost it, and go under the name of Expecters and Seekers.

1657 S. Du Verger Humble Refl. 100 Doe they not all run promiscuously to..the same seruice..as well the Quaker, the seeker, and the expecter, as the Brownist.

1821 tr. Trav. Cosmo III 444 The ‘Expecters’ are distinguished from the ‘Seekers’ [who] say that the Church is in every place whatever; whereas the former teach that the Church is no where.

2011 A. Hessayon & D. Finnegan Varieties 17th- & Early 18th-cent. Eng. Radicalism in Context 3 Seekers or Expecters were likened to libertines who had scandalously defected from the bosom of the Church.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	expecter
释义	expectern. Brit. /ᵻkˈspɛktə/, /ɛkˈspɛktə/, U.S. /ᵻkˈspɛktər/, /ɛkˈspɛktər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: expect v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < expect v. + -er suffix¹. Compare earlier expector n. 1. A person who expects something (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun] > one who expects or anticipates expector1584 expectant1588 anticipator1598 expecter1610 anticiparian1641 expectaltee1654 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xxxv. 723 Hee [sc. Christ] must..be desired of the expecters [L. vt enim desideratus esset, & expectandus cunctis gentibus]. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy Pref. sig. A5^v I am not..any expecter of a Reign of nothing but Saints and Worthies. 1783 W. Davy tr. Timūr Inst. Polit. & Mil. ii. 269 I appointed another person, who on the death of the first should succeed to his rank and dignity; and him I entitled an Expecter of Preferment. 1825 Pocket Mag. Classic & Polite Lit. 2 215 Expecters of fat livings, valuable sinecures, and rich reversions, may haply be taught to check the indecorous ardor of eager hope. 1882 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 360 The new schooner Lenore, though expected to be going to do great things, rather disappointed the expecters. 1917 W. Owen Let. 17 July in Sel. Lett. (1998) 262 The hundred and one expecters of my letters. 2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 15 Apr. 16 The expecters (and wanters) of the worst in relation to Iraq must lead miserable lives. 2. Church History. Chiefly in plural. Often with capital initial. A member of a 17th-cent. radical religious group that rejected the institutional church and its scriptures and sacraments in expectation of a miraculous event which would restore the true apostolic church. Cf. seeker n. 1b. ΚΠ 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 2) 141 Many have wrangled so long about the Church, that at last they have quite lost it, and go under the name of Expecters and Seekers. 1657 S. Du Verger Humble Refl. 100 Doe they not all run promiscuously to..the same seruice..as well the Quaker, the seeker, and the expecter, as the Brownist. 1821 tr. Trav. Cosmo III 444 The ‘Expecters’ are distinguished from the ‘Seekers’ [who] say that the Church is in every place whatever; whereas the former teach that the Church is no where. 2011 A. Hessayon & D. Finnegan Varieties 17th- & Early 18th-cent. Eng. Radicalism in Context 3 Seekers or Expecters were likened to libertines who had scandalously defected from the bosom of the Church. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610
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