单词 | abettor |
释义 | abettorn. 1. Chiefly Law. A person who encourages or assists an offender. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager friendOE procurera1325 fautorc1330 voweec1380 corner-stonec1384 abettor1387 vocatec1390 procurator1395 maintainer?a1400 proctora1413 supporter1426 comforter1483 factorc1503 allower1528 advancer1536 affirmer?1541 agreer1548 encourager1562 fortifierc1565 favourer1567 aim-crier1597 suffragator1606 seconder1623 countenancera1625 affectionate1628 adstipulator1646 flesher1646 fauterera1662 advocate1735 sympathizer1816 sympathista1834 advocator1837 ite1852 rooter1889 spear-carrier1960 1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 37 (MED) If any of vs..be apeched to owre lige lorde..as wyth Brembre or his abettours. 1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 58/2 (MED) They shulle ben put in prison, as her Conseillours, fautours, and abettours, and as they were bonde men to these Religious byforeseid. 1449 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1449 §21. m. 6 That the justices of the pees..have poiar to..determine of all such misdoers, ther abbettours and recettours, and to make processe ayenest persones so endited. 1538 A. Fitzherbert Loffice & Auctory Iustiyes de Peas f. cxliij Euery suche person so offendinge theyr ayders, assistetes, comfortours, abbettours, procurours, mainteynours, fautours, counsaylours, and concelours..shall runne in the daunger. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. ii. 117 The simple woman is not so much to blame as her lewde abbettours. 1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices iii. 154 Paricides, such as kill their parents openly or closely, and such as are either accessaries or abettours, punished with extreame torture of death, according to th'imperiall Lawes. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 250 in Justice Vindicated Every such person, their Aiders, Counsellors and Abettors shall be adjudged Traitors. 1707 E. Smith Phædra & Hippolitus ii. 16 Go seize Alcmæon, Nicias, and all The black Abettors of his impious Treason. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 138 The person committing, and all his aiders, advisers and abettors. 1820 Q. Rev. May 82 These freebooters could not have maintained themselves so long, had not they found abettors, concealers, and receivers of their spoils. 1894 Sydney Mail 14 July 90/2 His [sc. a referee's] decisions did not suit his ruffianly assailants and their abettors. 1915 J. Roland Six-pointed Cross in Dust vi. 183 His guilt once established, our reckoning with him and his abettor may safely be postponed for a few hours. 2003 Lawrence (Kansas) Jrnl.-World 20 Feb. 6 a (headline) German court convicts 9-11 abettor. 2. A supporter, an adherent, an advocate, now chiefly of something or someone undesirable or reprehensible. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > chiefly in something bad maintainer?a1400 abetter1457 bolsterer1523 abettor1569 succentor1609 bettor1671 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander i. xiv. f. 23v The Macedonians..adiudge Attale and Alcete, with their Abettors and friends, enimies and rebelles. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 24 Foes, which by thy well doing thou mayste cause to be earnest arbettors [sic] of thee. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 227 An opinion that hath learned and godly abettors. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. xvii. 437 The zealous and resolute Assertours and Abettours of Truth, then which nothing is more robustious and strong. 1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 78 A very material Difference between my Manner of Reasoning and that which is in Use amongst the Abbetors of Artificial Society. 1782 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit (ed. 2) I. iii. 36 The abettors of that hypothesis..object to mine. 1844 Christian Rev. Dec. 513 How shall the abettors of infant baptism meet these..difficulties? 1855 R. C. Singleton in tr. Virgil Wks. I. Pref. p. xviii The abettors of such a system must forget that, in good authors, a single word has a single meaning, in a single place. 1914 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 158 It is clear from the dispatches that Sforza was an enthusiastic abettor of Coppino. 1997 W. I. Miller Anat. Disgust ix. 226 The dancing master is simply a low abettor of the vanities of the privileged. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1387 |
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