单词 | makebate |
释义 | makebaten.adj. A. n. 1. a. A person who or (occasionally) thing which creates contention or discord; a fomenter of strife. Now archaic.Common in 16th–17th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension > one who sower1380 firebranda1382 barratorc1430 makebate1529 bate-makera1564 mischief-master1567 boutefeu?1584 make-debate1588 breed-bate1593 kindle-fire1595 brew-bate1602 brand1608 fling-brand1616 make-strife1617 mischief-monger1620 blow-coal1622 kindle-coal1630 fire spirit1647 mischief-maker1675 mischief-doer1822 mixer1938 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. viii They agre better to gyther, then to fall at varyaunce for the wylde wordes of suche a malycyouse make bate. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvii. sig. Ff5 Disdaining this fellow should play the preacher, who had bin one of the chiefest make-bates. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. iv. 576 It was not likely they would joyne in conspiracie, whom Religion (the most mortall make-bate) had disioyned. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 149 Satan, who is the great make-bate between God and the soule. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Jas. iv. 1 Lust within is the Make-bait in all Societies and Communities without. 1710 J. Swift Examiner No. 15. ⁋5 Like a couple of makebates, who inflame small quarrels by a thousand stories. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. xi. 207 I thank Heaven, I am no make-bate or informer. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 22 Barillon was..directed to act, with all possible precautions against detection, the part of a makebate. 1896 G. Saintsbury Hist. 19th Cent. Lit. iv. 185 He [sc. Hazlitt] appears to have played the part of fire~brand and makebate in the John Scott duel referred to. 1955 S. H. Adams Grandfather Stories 43 The man was a hater of the great Governor and his life-work, the Erie; a makebate, a dawplucker, a malcontent politicaster. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension makebate1626 mischief-making1734 1626 R. Bernard Isle of Man ii. 207 Selfeloue, Makebate and Vnmercifulnesse. a. The yellow jasmine of southern Europe, Jasminum fruticans. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > jasmine jasmine1548 Indian mourner1597 jesse1597 makebate1597 sad tree1597 shrub trefoil1597 sorrowful tree1597 double pipe-tree1629 jessamy1631 mogra1662 melancholy tree1760 night jasmine1866 sampaguita1902 pikake1933 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1128 Of the shrub Trefoile, called also Makebate. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Polemoine The shrubbie Trefoile called, Make-bate. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Makebate, or Shrub-Trefoil, is yellow Jasmine. b. The plant Jacob's ladder, Polemonium caeruleum. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > Jacob's ladder Greek (Greekish, Grecian) valerian1578 Polemonium1601 Jacob's ladder1733 charity1737 makebate1866 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 711/2 Makebate, Polemonium cœruleum. That creates contention or discord. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective] > causing or desiring dissension bate-making1533 makebatea1577 bate-breeding1594 firebrand1609 diversivolent1612 mischief-making1693 weaponized1988 a1577 G. Gascoigne Grief of Joye ii. xii, in Compl. Wks. (1910) II. 528 Yf gentle words..Were needeles (now) in makebate verse to wryte. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 38 Thee bane of vs Troians, of Greeks thee mak bate Erinnys. 1622 S. Rowlands Good Newes & Bad Newes sig. E Which she in memorie would still retaine, And cross the deuill in his make-bate veine. 1675 T. Tully Let. to R. Baxter 14 Your own make-bate Novelties. 1893 C. M. Yonge Grisly Grisell II. xxix. 222 He has seen the error of following that make-bate Queen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1529 |
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