单词 | husbander |
释义 | husbandern. A person who husbands something (in various senses of the verb); esp. a person who makes careful use of resources, assets, etc., a thrifty or prudent administrator. Also (occasionally): a husbandman, a tiller of the soil. ΚΠ ?1585 E. Aggas tr. E. de L'Allouette Catholicke Apologie ii. f. 44 The Bishops and Cleargie would needes be the distributers, stewardes, and husbanders [Fr. dispensateurs] of Church goodes. 1609 H. Wotton Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 461 So thrifty a husbander is he grown of his excommunications! 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 239 Men shall..prosper by their labours on the ground, especially husbanders and manurers thereof. 1715 tr. Cicero Tusculan Disputations iii. 119 Read Gracchus's Orations, and you will take him for an excellent Husbander of the publick Treasures. 1897 M. Pemberton in Windsor Mag. Jan. 267/1 Wonderful men are these cooks, the husbanders of wonderful fortunes. 1913 W. R. Benét Merchants from Cathay 76 Oft with hay-band, goad, or ladder, Rôle-assuming,..she..Passed as husbander or reaper. 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. 13/2 He was a husbander of facts and obsessive about completeness. 2000 M. Platt in J. E. Alvis & T. G. West Shakespeare as Polit. Thinker 368 He himself is one of nature's riches and he is his own husbander. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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