单词 | abider |
释义 | abidern. a. A person who is steadfast, or who perseveres. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 98 (MED) If þe way seyme scharp & longe to þame þat lufis not, lufe..with schort labore fulfyllis þe abidars. b. A person who stands firm, or who sustains or withstands an attack. Cf. abide v. 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > defender > [noun] > one who holds his ground abidera1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B1v Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace: speedy goers, and strong abiders, triumphers both in Camps and Courts. 1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron i. sig. B2 Doubt not he will prooue, Of the yet taintlesse fortresse of Byron, A quicke Expugner, and a strong Abider. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. xii. §7. 152 The Lacedæmonians being very firme abiders, might seeme the more likely to preuaile. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. iv. 14 The Don proved just contrary in the next exploit, being the abider of Wrongs, and undergoer, I cannot say, but underlayer of Injuries. 1796 C. Pitt Ess. Philos. Christianity 36 In respect of evil objects their abiding and enduring depends on deficiency of ability in the opposer—deficiency of relative capacity in the abider or endurer, and the want of suitable circumstances. 2. A person who stays in a place; a dweller, a resident. Cf. abide v. 9. Now rare and somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun] maneOE wonnera1340 dwellera1382 livera1382 indweller1382 resiant1405 inhabitor1413 inhabitera1425 tenanta1425 abider1440 citizenc1450 inhabitant1462 resident1463 denizen1474 inhabitator?a1475 mansionarya1475 habitant1490 incolera1513 occupier?1542 land-occupier1576 residentiary1581 burgessa1586 incolant1596 consistorian1599 ledger1600 resider1632 residenter1644 habitator1646 endwellera1649 incolary1652 incolist1657 insetter1712 houser1871 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 429 Rennare or vnstable a-bydare, fugitivus, fugitiva, profugus, profuga. 1449 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) XI. 245 (MED) That no Scottish man..let not distrouble the saide Souldeours, Inhabitans, or Abiders of the said Town. 1580 A. Munday Zelauto ii. 63 Fortune hath sent me hether, where I must be no long abyder. 1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xi. §4 What [land] is worst for the Rider, is best for the Abider. 1653 T. Urquhart Logopandecteision iv. 59 The progenie of these firm abiders, is always of a small extent, for the most part, as may appear by seven or eight several surnames, in two parishes of my Land. 1720 W. Kennett Monitions to Clergy of Peterborough i. 26 Appear not any where as hasty Travellers, as the Pursuers of Sport, or as the negligent abiders at Home. 1797 W. Anderson Lect. Psalms v. 57 The trait of the character here assigned to the abider in the tabernacle of Zion, corresponds to that emphatic one given by our Saviour to Nathaniel. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 124 The scattered remnant, who, for His name's sake, were abiders in the wilderness. 1875 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids vii. 683 Abiders near cool Anio. 1902 J. W. De Forest Poems 54 The longsince dead are the only Abiders there I know. 1992 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 5 Jan. 2 Its [sc. Houston's] inhabitants [are] more optimistic than the run-of-the-mill abiders of the outlands. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > [noun] > one who waits abider1499 on-waiter1601 waiter1655 attendant1690 1499 Rote or Myrour Consolacyon & Conforte (de Worde) (new ed.) sig. Giii The wretched people take not themselfe as abyders, for he that abydeth he hopeth to haue some thynge. 1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. (1567) Dimorante, the abider or tarier. 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Catech. & Other Pieces (1844) 143 Such patient abider of the Lord's leisure was Job. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1435 |
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