单词 | animadverter |
释义 | animadvertern. Now archaic and rare. 1. A person who animadverts; a censurer, fault-finder; an unfavourable critic or commentator. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > critic assailant1565 animadvertiser1596 critic1598 critist1602 animadversor1618 animadverter1642 reflector1681 reflecter1686 criticizer1710 dictioneer1848 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 13 Therefore the Animadverter haunts Playhouses and Bordelloes; for if hee did not, how could hee speake of such gear? 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 1 I took up to my self this Resolution, to Stere my course betwixt the two Rocks of Adulation and Irritation; though it seems I have run upon both, if the Animadvertor may be beleeved. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke To Rdr. sig. A2 Had he esteemed..that it was decent for him to have enter'd the Pit with so Scurrilous an Animadverter. 1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose vi. 658 The severest Animadverters upon all Extravagants & Transgressers of their vocation. 1714 Nelson Script. Doctr. Trin. Pref. 11 I was thus invited by your and my animadverter..to defend Bishop Bull and myself. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. Pref. Such of these animadverters as have fallen within the author's notice. 1792 W. Scott Let. 10 Sept. (1932) I. 21 He will have many advisers and animadverters upon the naughtiness of his ways. 1812 Brit. Critic Sept. ix. 261 The animadvertor insists that ἱνα admits not of the sense given to it by the translators. 1852 H. Coleridge Lives Northern Worthies (rev. ed.) I. 189 The appearance of Horace was the signal for a fresh list of animadverters to direct their shafts against the editor. 1859 R. C. Trench Sel. Gloss. 56 A pitiless animadverter on the real or imaginary mistakes of others. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 322/3 The most censorious Republican (or Democratic) animadverter on the ‘mess in Washington’. 2006 Quadrant (Nexis) 1 July Saikal avoids the frothing-at-the-mouth style of Israel's more extreme animadverters. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] > one who punishes punishera1387 chastiserc1440 scourger1533 visitor1545 executioner1578 visiter1608 lictor1638 animadverter1694 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 380 God is..a severe Animadverter upon, such as presume to partake of those Mysteries, without such a Preparation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1642 |
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