makern.

Brit.

/ˈmeɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪkər/

Forms: Middle English macar, Middle English macare, Middle English macker, Middle English makar, Middle English makare, Middle English makear, Middle English makere, Middle English makerr, Middle English makier, Middle English makiere, Middle English makyer, Middle English makyere, Middle English– maker; Scottish pre-1700 mackar, pre-1700 maikar, pre-1700 maiker, pre-1700 maikkar, pre-1700 makare, pre-1700 makere, pre-1700 makkar, pre-1700 makker, pre-1700 1700s– macker, pre-1700 1700s– makar, pre-1700 1700s– maker, pre-1700 1700s– makkar, 1900s– maakar.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: make v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < make v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

1. A person who fashions, constructs, prepares for use, or manufactures something; a manufacturer. Similarly, a company or other organization with this function.

a. With prefixed noun.For more established compounds see the first element.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > construction > one who constructs

maker1297

artificer1533

artifex1605

constructor1751

fabricant1756

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer

maker1297

workera1382

preparatorc1485

opificer1548

preparer1553

manufactora1649

opifex1649

manufacturera1687

faker1688

fabricant1756

fabricator1863

prepper1970

1297 in W. P. W. Phillimore Placita Coram Rege (1898) 143 Johannem le Platemakere.

1347 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 222 (MED) Rob. Barremakere.

1374 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 222 (MED) Paul. Barremaker.

1455–6 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 98 (MED) For erneste peny to the ymage maker, j d.

1502 in H. Craig Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays App. ii. 104 The wholl body of the craft of the tylmakers of Stoke.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 175 Carte makers..sadlers, coller makers.

1696 W. Derham (title) The Artificial Clock-maker.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4833/3 Tho. Morse,..a Mathematical Instrument-maker.

1774 in Titles Patents (1854) I. 193 A grant unto Hugh Oxenham,..carpenter and mangle maker, of his new invented mangle of an entirely new construction.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. i. 372 A goldsmith's daughter! exclaimed I... Can you think of tying me up to a trinket-maker?

1902 Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 6/6 The necktie-makers and the artificial-flower-makers.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 850/1 It is uncertain whether he was a ship-chandler, a patten-maker, a plane-iron maker or an ironmonger.

1991 Jrnl. Refugee Stud. 4 262 Most mkate and mandazi-makers were wives in prosperous male-headed households.

1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint ii. 149 The Italians..were understandably tired of being viewed as a nation of organ-grinders and gelato-makers.

b. Without prefixed noun.

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 113^v He makeþ singers, louyers of musik & makers of confexiouns of spicerie & spiceres.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 11036 Hijs lauerd he kneu welwel biforn Þat he was of his moder born [cf. Luke 1:41],..Þe maker kneu his hand-werc.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 741 Man maketh ofte a yerde With which the makere is hymself ybeten.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 319 Macare, factor, plasmator.

c1480 (a1400) St. George 403 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 187 Þi godis..ar mad bot of handis of men..þar makaris noþir gifand na hele.

1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 6 §3 The maker merchaunt or byer of eny wollen clothes called Bastardes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/1 Maker of haye to cockes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/1 Maker of naylles.

1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Gv^v They be both wodmongers, and makers of cooles.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xlv. 16 Makers of idoles.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 65 I valued an Irish Cabbin at the number of days food, which the Maker spent in building of it.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §14. 259 The Makers [of these Instruments] have fitted an Ecliptic to it.

1771 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 147 At the bottom of the room is a table in which the maker has amazingly display'd his genius in disposing the different colours.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 314 The display of artistically constructed guns by the French makers in their Great Exposition of 1855.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 384 We procured some honey, which is taken from its makers in a very singular manner.

1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 52 The spurious gun may be either a gun represented as being of a quality it is not, or as a production of a maker other than the real one.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 726/2 The maker who wrote on the vessel from right to left the inscription, part of which [etc.].

1947 Gramophone Oct. 74/1 This..has the..replaceable sapphire stylus, for which the makers claim 1,000 playings before replacement is necessary.

1988 Which? Jan. 9/2 There is no guarantee that the name of a maker is a safe guide to the car's country of origin.

c. maker-up n. a person who makes up something or someone, formerly esp. in printing and in later use chiefly in textile and garment manufacture (see to make up 9f at make v.¹ Phrasal verbs 1). Cf. maker-upper n.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun]

clouterc1440

maker-up?a1444

botcher1499

repairer?1504

reparationer1520

patcher1528

bodger1538

repareller1546

mender1552

sarcinator1646

vamper1712

piecer1764

renovator1827

repairman1856

fixer?1881

serviceman1905

Mr Fixit1924

fixit man1949

fixit1982

society > communication > printing > printer > readers, collators, etc. > [noun] > one concerned with make-up of paper

maker-up1891

?a1444 Duke of Norfolk in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 23 We haue appoyntid you to be one of the makeres vp indifferently of the euydences betwix vs and the seide heires.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lviii. D Thou shalt be called the maker vp of hedges.

1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxix. 412 A maker up of the narrative from later and insecure traditions.

1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 64 One or two men, called ‘makers-up’, are employed for each box to keep drawing the wool through their hands, making it into a kind of ‘lap’.

1891 Daily News 16 Jan. 8/4 Wanted, overseer, in country printing office... Good maker-up.

1892 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) After the bodies and parts of Britannia metal goods have been shaped..the maker-up puts them together.

1955 Times 28 July 12/6 Taylor and Hartley (Textiles) have acquired the share capital of R. Olsen, makers-up, of Congleton.

d. Without up. A person who carries out a particular stage in the manufacture, esp. by hand, of various items (see quots.).

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer > doing specific part of process

finisher1691

rougher1874

maker1892

1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Makers, the workmen who receive the tops and then complete the making of hand-sewn boots and shoes. The term is also applied to those who make the bottom (with the exception of the finishing) of a rivetted or machine-made boot.

1961 M. Jones Potbank viii. 29 The potter—the man who changes a lump of clay into a cup or a plate—is known in the potbank as the maker.

1993 Independent 9 Feb. 25/5 The ‘closer’ cuts the leather to the final shape and the ‘maker’ completes the operation by attaching the sole and the heel.

a. Modified by a possessive adjective (also by the or an attributive phrase). Used of God as the Creator of the universe. Now with capital initial.

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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > creator

wrightc888

lightOE

sheppendOE

sheppera1175

wroughtc1275

creatorc1300

shaper1303

maker1340

workera1382

authora1413

workman1440

workmaster1531

artificer?1555

re-creator1587

architector1639

architect1659

enlivener1663

God almighty1787

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 251 Þe herte..y-ziȝþ hire zelue and hire makiere.

c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 262 (MED) Ich leue ine god, uader almiȝti, makere of heuene and of erþe.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 17875 Þis ilke liȝt forsoþe is he þat maker is of lastyng liȝt.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 319 Macare of noghte, as God only, creator.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 229 Flayt by him self to the makar off buffe.

?1507 Communyc. (W. de W.) B ij I was made to knowe my maker And to loue hym ouer all thynge.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xciv. [xcv.] 6 Let vs knele before the Lorde oure maker.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy Prol. 1 Maistur in mageste, maker of Alle.

1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 54 O what is man (great maker of mankind).

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn ii, in Poems 3 Confounded, that her Makers eyes Should look so neer upon her foul deformities.

1718 I. Watts Hymn i Nature with open volume stands, To spread her Maker's praise abroad.

1751 Narr. Life J. Daniel xv. 206 It was but a creature..of the great Giver of life, and Maker of the world.

1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xxi. 83 The glorious sky embracing all Is like the Maker's love.

1849 I. Williams Altar i. 4 That unearthly stillness, more intense, Where man must meet his Maker, and be known.

a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 221 Pious to God the Maker and to all He had made.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage viii. 27 How can you face your Maker when you've been breaking one of His laws in the afternoon?

1950 D. Cusack Morning Sacrifice in 3 Austral. Three-Act Plays iii. ii. 249 I do not know—and you do not know—perhaps only Sheila and her Maker shall ever know—what drove her to this desperate deed.

1985 Toronto Sun 10 Oct. 66 Moseby grabbed his bat again, had a quiet chat with his Maker, and reassured himself that nothing had happened here that they both still couldn't handle together.

†b.

(a) to receive (also take) one's Maker: to receive the consecrated host in the Eucharist. Obsolete.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > receive communion [phrase]

houselOE

to receive, take the sacrament?c1225

to receive one's Savioura1425

to take (also deliver, receive) (the) communion1440

to receive (also take) one's Maker1539

1539 T. Pery Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 145 That hys Grace..recewythe hys maker yerlye acording to the lawdebwll usse..of owr holly mother Chwrche.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Uiiij^v It was aboute Easter, at what tyme maidens gadded abrode, after thei had taken their maker, as thei cal it.

1564 T. Becon Compar. Lordes Supper & Popish Masse f. cxiii, in Wks. iii To celebrate the Lordes Supper, or as the Papistes terme it, to take their Hushel, or to receaue their maker.

1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) II. 100 Then he received his Maker [1485 Caxton ed. x. lxii, his creatoure]: and, when he was dead [etc.].

(b) A wafer of bread for use in the Eucharist. Obsolete. rare.

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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > bread > [noun]

fleshc1000

ofleteOE

mannaa1200

breada1225

bread of lifea1300

host1303

bodya1325

obleya1325

God's bodya1387

cakec1390

singing bread1432

bread of wheata1450

singing loaf1530

God's bread1535

bread god?1548

round robin?1548

holy bread1552

singing cake1553

Jack-in-the-box1554

wafer-cake?1554

wafer1559

wafer-bread1565

breaden god1570

mass cake1579

wafer-god1623

hostel1624

maker1635

hostie1641

oblata1721

altar bread1839

prosphora1874

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 51 Henry Stephens writeth of a Dogge, that did eat 80 of their Hoasts, or Makers, in one morning.

c. to meet one's Maker: (in extended use) to die; (sometimes humorously, of a thing) to be destroyed.

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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]

forsweltc888

sweltc888

adeadeOE

deadc950

wendeOE

i-wite971

starveOE

witea1000

forfereOE

forthfareOE

forworthc1000

to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE

queleOE

fallOE

to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE

to shed (one's own) blood?a1100

diec1135

endc1175

farec1175

to give up the ghostc1175

letc1200

aswelta1250

leavea1250

to-sweltc1275

to-worthc1275

to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290

finea1300

spilla1300

part?1316

to leese one's life-daysa1325

to nim the way of deathc1325

to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330

flit1340

trance1340

determinec1374

disperisha1382

to go the way of all the eartha1382

to be gathered to one's fathers1382

miscarryc1387

shut1390

goa1393

to die upa1400

expirea1400

fleea1400

to pass awaya1400

to seek out of lifea1400–50

to sye hethena1400

tinea1400

trespass14..

espirec1430

to end one's days?a1439

decease1439

to go away?a1450

ungoc1450

unlivec1450

to change one's lifea1470

vade1495

depart1501

to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513

to decease this world1515

to go over?1520

jet1530

vade1530

to go westa1532

to pick over the perch1532

galpa1535

to die the death1535

to depart to God1548

to go home1561

mort1568

inlaikc1575

shuffle1576

finish1578

to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587

relent1587

unbreathe1589

transpass1592

to lose one's breath1596

to make a die (of it)1611

to go offa1616

fail1623

to go out1635

to peak over the percha1641

exita1652

drop1654

to knock offa1657

to kick upa1658

to pay nature her due1657

ghost1666

to march off1693

to die off1697

pike1697

to drop off1699

tip (over) the perch1699

to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703

sink1718

vent1718

to launch into eternity1719

to join the majority1721

demise1727

to pack off1735

to slip one's cable1751

turf1763

to move off1764

to pop off the hooks1764

to hop off1797

to pass on1805

to go to glory1814

sough1816

to hand in one's accounts1817

to slip one's breatha1819

croak1819

to slip one's wind1819

stiffen1820

weed1824

buy1825

to drop short1826

to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839

to get one's (also the) call1839

to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840

to unreeve one's lifeline1840

to step out1844

to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845

to hand in one's checks1845

to go off the handle1848

to go under1848

succumb1849

to turn one's toes up1851

to peg out1852

walk1858

snuff1864

to go or be up the flume1865

to pass outc1867

to cash in one's chips1870

to go (also pass over) to the majority1883

to cash in1884

to cop it1884

snuff1885

to belly up1886

perch1886

to kick the bucket1889

off1890

to knock over1892

to pass over1897

to stop one1901

to pass in1904

to hand in one's marble1911

the silver cord is loosed1911

pip1913

to cross over1915

conk1917

to check out1921

to kick off1921

to pack up1925

to step off1926

to take the ferry1928

peg1931

to meet one's Maker1933

to kiss off1935

to crease it1959

zonk1968

cark1977

to cark it1979

to take a dirt nap1981

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end

losec888

fallOE

forlesea1225

perishc1275

spilla1300

to go to wreche13..

to go to the gatec1330

to go to lostc1374

miscarryc1387

quenchc1390

to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400

mischieve?a1400

tinea1400

to go to the devilc1405

bursta1450

untwindc1460

to make shipwreck1526

to go to (the) pot1531

to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547

wrake1570

wracka1586

to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587

to lie in the dusta1591

mischief1598

to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599

shipwreck1607

suffera1616

unravel1643

to fall off1684

tip (over) the perch1699

to do away with1769

to go to the dickens1833

collapse1838

to come (also go) a mucker1851

mucker1862

to go up1864

to go to squash1889

to go (to) stramash1910

to go for a burton1941

to meet one's Makera1978

1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xv. 261 The wretched man had gone to meet his Maker in Farley's Footwear.

1967 in R. D. Abrahams Positively Black (1970) ii. 26 ‘Nigger boy,’ he said to me, ‘how'd you like to meet your maker right now?’

a1978 TV Times in A. P. Cowie et al. Oxf. Dict. Current Idiomatic Eng. (1983) II. 383/2 As these tired old notes meet their maker in Essex, a new load is on its way into our pockets.

1989 Premiere Dec. 42/4 His scriptwriter.., Nat Maudlin, almost met his maker thanks to a rafting expedition.

1997 Independent 20 May (Network Plus section) 3/3 Many a murderous, larcenous or otherwise socially irresponsible soul met his maker in this fashion.

a. A person who composes a book, draws up a document, frames a law, or the like.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun]

bookerOE

writerOE

makerc1350

authora1382

inditera1387

pena1398

poetc1400

bookmakera1425

ditera1425

compilera1500

compositor?1533

book writer1565

penner1568

authorizera1579

bookwright1583

scribe1584

epistler1592

penman1592

scriptora1600

composer1603

book-breeder1605

comprisor?1623

volumist1641

scrivenera1660

literatist1660

knight of the quill1692

belletrist1816

scriever1825

creative writer1854

penworker1876

c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 269 Þe makyere zayþ, ‘Þus, þus, now ssel eurich hys heuynesse ssake a-way uram drede.’

a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 11^v (MED) Here þis nede driueþ me to ouertourne auctors, þat is, techeris and makeris of bookys.

c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 566 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 206 Makare of þe saltere.

1485 Act 1 Hen. VII c. 7 The Maker of any such Warrant.

1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 8 Which acte..is so obscure..that the true entent of the makers therof cannot..be undrestond.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xvii. 13 Þe haly gast..that is makere of haly writ.

1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.iij^v Whan they most supersticiously stycke to the letters of lawes not regardyng thintent of the makers.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. ix. 149 Lawes for the Church are not made as they should be, vnles the makers follow such direction as they ought to be guided by.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 306 The Makers of Civill Laws, are not onely Declarers, but also Makers of the justice, and injustice of actions.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 229 The makers of the act.

1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. ii. 20 There was a rambling statement that the maker of the will acknowledged Anna Murray to be his illegitimate daughter.

1932 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses vii. 128 The papers submitted on Tuesday were, in the main, satisfactory. They would be returned, with notations, to their makers, at the close of the hour.

1949 Notes & Queries 8 Jan. 1/2 The makers of the following inventory were John Josselyn and John Cook.

b. With prefixed noun. Cf. sense 1a.

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c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. cxv David seiþ Lord sett þou a lawe maker upon hem.

1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde B vj Where so euer is a testament, there muste the death of the testament maker go betwene.

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. at Poet A verse maker.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 109 Spiritual Affidavit makers.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 346 Our Map-makers..do not agree to it.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 150 A mere verse-maker, in whose numbers..there is no poetry.

1833 H. A. in Philol. Museum 2 442 Men who were not fable-makers or compilers of marvellous stories.

1902 J. B. Greenough & G. L. Kittredge Words 181 A controlling effect on the action of the early language-makers.

1928 M. Connolly Mr. Blue v. 98 The successful conversationalist is not the epigram-maker, for sustained brilliance is blinding.

1962 H. A. Gleason in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 88 A dictionary-maker need not include a non-idiomatic nonce-form.

1991 Tablet 21 Dec. 1577/2 Unlike theologians, carol-makers are not afraid of mystery; they celebrate it.

a. In various immaterial senses: a person who brings about or produces a condition, effect, state of mind, etc.; a creator or producer (of); †a person who appoints to an office (obsolete); †a contriver (obsolete).

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creator

forgerc1380

authora1382

feigner1382

formerc1386

founderc1390

makera1450

plasmatoura1500

constitutor1531

framer1534

creator1548

fashioner1548

opificer1548

essentiator1561

creatress1590

effecter1591

compactor1593

moulder1594

creatrix1595

mouldress1599

effector1635

composer1644

plastic1644

opifex1649

fabricator1650

formator1656

efformer1662

essentializer1669

constituenta1676

crafter1907

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 2682 (MED) And if we take any skathe..I dar wel swere That Malachias is chief maker.

1517 R. Fox Let. 30 Apr. (1929) 94 The Kyng that was my maker and promotor to the dignytie that I..doo occupye.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 21^v You be in deed, makers or marrers, of all mens maners within the Realme.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 29^v The greatest makers of loue, the daylie daliers.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 751 They..perceiuyng that the Castell of Barwicke was the onely maker of the peace.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 205 The maker of the bargaine.

a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 409 All mainteyners, conspirators, makers of confederacie.

1714 A. Pope Corr. Oct. (1956) I. 265 Her Makers of Visits & Complements.

1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish ii. 66 I am a maker of war, and not a maker of phrases.

1871 S. Smiles Character i. 22 Great workers and great thinkers are the true makers of history.

1906 J. London White Fang iii. i. 121 He knew them for what they were—makers of law and executors of law.

1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xi. 146 Homer K. Pringsheim is the power behind many a throne and the maker and breaker of many a film career.

1984 A. Livingstone Lou Andreas-Salomé vi. 93 All values are arbitrary and depend on us, their makers.

b. With prefixed noun. Cf. sense 1a.

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1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 105 The Swanne pursueth the cockolde-maker.., & will not leaue the spouse breaker, tyll he kyll or bee killed.

1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. E5^v Death or destinie, or any of those period-makers.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 341 Who dully think all Foreigners Man-makers, Send out their Booby Sons to France, to Dress.

1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 12 Drink is..the widow-maker of their wives.

1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City ii. 16 The calumny-makers.

1904 Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 5/6 Mr. James Welch to be Prominent Fun-maker at Drury Lane.

1924 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico (1927) 123 The intermittent black-and-white fantasy of the hopping Koshare, the jesters, the Delight-Makers.

1954 R. Lynes (title) Tastemakers.

1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) xix. 472 I had come to Kansas City to meet civilians, consumers of Goodson and Glaser..the taste-makers I have traveled halfway around the world to decode.

5. [Compare ancient Greek ποιητής poet n. (to which quot. a1586 refers).] A poet. Now archaic.In modern literary criticism, frequently in Scottish form makar (spec. with reference to a poet writing in Scots, esp. one of the 15th cent. or early 16th cent.).

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c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 2462 (MED) I woll nat feyn oon woord, as makers doon to ryme.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 775 There ys no maker can reherse the tenthe part.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1453 Quhen gud makaris rang weill in-to Scotland.

?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 95 I se that makaris, amang the laif, Playis heir ther padȝanis, syne gois to graif.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 233 Than cam in Dunbar the mackar.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclix^v In wytte and in good reason of sentence he [sc. Chaucer] passeth al other makers.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vii. f. 26/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Owen Odewhee, a preacher, and a maker in Irishe.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1 Wherein I know not, whether by lucke or wisedome, wee Englishmen haue mette with the Greekes, in calling him a maker.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. 48 In the latter end of the same kings raigne sprong vp a new company of courtly makers, of whom Sir Thomas Wyat th'elder & Henry Earle of Surrey were the two chieftaines.

1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. viii. 98 Here all is in life and motion; here we behold the true Poet or Maker.

1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. II. v. 366 The simple names of the authors, or ‘makars’, with a brief and unsatisfying notice of the subjects of their composition, are all that remain.

1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew 3 An' hinmaist, the Hebrew Makars, gran' an' a' as they war, had a schule-man's gate o' their ain.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. iii. 66 ‘You found your pleasure in reading divine Poetry,’ said the Maker softly.

1878 A. B. Grosart in H. More Compl. Poems Introd. 46/1 To reinscribe the venerable name of Henry More among our real Makers and Singers.

1891 Dict. National Biogr. XXVI. 131/1 Henryson is the most Chaucerian of the Scottish ‘makaris’.

1908 Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 239 With James I the outlook changes, and in the poems of Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas and some of the minor ‘makars’ the manner of the earlier northern poetry survives only in stray places.

1976 J. Bayley Uses of Division ii. ii. 164 His continual awareness of the difference between the poet as maker and as person.

2008 Stirling Observer 12 Nov. 5 The process of appointing Stirling's first makar is under way.

†a. Cards. A wild card. Cf. bragger n. 2. Obsolete.

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1753 Scots Mag. 15 74/2 You'd rather hold—two aces and a maker.

1754 ‘Gyles Smith’ Refl. Card-playing 14 (Brag) Here the Power of the Knave is so great, that he is usually called a Maker. The Meaning is, that, whatever Company he comes into, he is enabled to make himself one of them. He is a Queen, with Queens; a King, with Kings; and an Ace, with Aces.

b. Bridge. The player who makes the declaration.

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1902 J. B. Elwell Bridge 24 When the ‘maker’ is on your right, you have the advantage that your trumps are over his.

1915 H. H. Asquith Lett. to Venetia Stanley (1982) 360 We had rather amazing Bridge... The last named is a foolish & adventurous maker—a regular gambler: & my modest partner & I made (unfortunately at low stakes) many points.

†7. Law. The person who signs a promissory note. Obsolete.

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1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 398/1 Maker, the person who signs a promissory note, who stands in the same situation, after the note is endorsed, as the acceptor of a bill of exchange.

Compounds

maker's mark n. an identifying mark struck by the maker on a piece of gold, silver, or plate; also figurative.

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1852 A. Ryland Assay of Gold & Silver iv. 51 In this section three classes of marks are mentioned: first, the maker's mark,..second, ‘the marks of the said Company of Goldsmiths in London’..; and third, ‘the marks appointed to be used by the assayers’.

1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer xiii. 142 With Homer the maker's mark never obtrudes the maker, or places him between the reader and the theme.

1938 Amer. Home Oct. 28/3 Many of these lovely pieces bear the maker's mark.

1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 55 Maker's mark, IH, with fleur-de-lis between pellets below in a shaped shield.

1990 Antique Collector Oct. 34 (caption) A bombé gold snuff box with unusually crisp chasing; maker's mark of Joli & Chevenard, Geneva circa 1825.

Derivatives

ˈmakeress n. a female maker of something (in quot. 1857 as the compound brick-makeress).Apparently an isolated use.

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1857 Househ. Words 16 411/2 Brick-makers and brick-makeresses jolting up and down on planks.

ˈmakership n. rare the position or office of maker or creator.

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1863 F. Hall in Reader 24 Jan. 95 We should much like to know..whether the Magian sage [sc. Zoroaster] seems to have had any idea of Makership apart from a material cause.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	maker
释义	makern. Brit. /ˈmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˈmeɪkər/ Forms: Middle English macar, Middle English macare, Middle English macker, Middle English makar, Middle English makare, Middle English makear, Middle English makere, Middle English makerr, Middle English makier, Middle English makiere, Middle English makyer, Middle English makyere, Middle English– maker; Scottish pre-1700 mackar, pre-1700 maikar, pre-1700 maiker, pre-1700 maikkar, pre-1700 makare, pre-1700 makere, pre-1700 makkar, pre-1700 makker, pre-1700 1700s– macker, pre-1700 1700s– makar, pre-1700 1700s– maker, pre-1700 1700s– makkar, 1900s– maakar. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: make v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < make v.¹ + -er suffix¹. 1. A person who fashions, constructs, prepares for use, or manufactures something; a manufacturer. Similarly, a company or other organization with this function. a. With prefixed noun.For more established compounds see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > construction > one who constructs maker1297 artificer1533 artifex1605 constructor1751 fabricant1756 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer maker1297 workera1382 preparatorc1485 opificer1548 preparer1553 manufactora1649 opifex1649 manufacturera1687 faker1688 fabricant1756 fabricator1863 prepper1970 1297 in W. P. W. Phillimore Placita Coram Rege (1898) 143 Johannem le Platemakere. 1347 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 222 (MED) Rob. Barremakere. 1374 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 222 (MED) Paul. Barremaker. 1455–6 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 98 (MED) For erneste peny to the ymage maker, j d. 1502 in H. Craig Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays App. ii. 104 The wholl body of the craft of the tylmakers of Stoke. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 175 Carte makers..sadlers, coller makers. 1696 W. Derham (title) The Artificial Clock-maker. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4833/3 Tho. Morse,..a Mathematical Instrument-maker. 1774 in Titles Patents (1854) I. 193 A grant unto Hugh Oxenham,..carpenter and mangle maker, of his new invented mangle of an entirely new construction. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. i. 372 A goldsmith's daughter! exclaimed I... Can you think of tying me up to a trinket-maker? 1902 Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 6/6 The necktie-makers and the artificial-flower-makers. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 850/1 It is uncertain whether he was a ship-chandler, a patten-maker, a plane-iron maker or an ironmonger. 1991 Jrnl. Refugee Stud. 4 262 Most mkate and mandazi-makers were wives in prosperous male-headed households. 1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint ii. 149 The Italians..were understandably tired of being viewed as a nation of organ-grinders and gelato-makers. b. Without prefixed noun. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 113^v He makeþ singers, louyers of musik & makers of confexiouns of spicerie & spiceres. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 11036 Hijs lauerd he kneu welwel biforn Þat he was of his moder born [cf. Luke 1:41],..Þe maker kneu his hand-werc. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 741 Man maketh ofte a yerde With which the makere is hymself ybeten. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 319 Macare, factor, plasmator. c1480 (a1400) St. George 403 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 187 Þi godis..ar mad bot of handis of men..þar makaris noþir gifand na hele. 1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 6 §3 The maker merchaunt or byer of eny wollen clothes called Bastardes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/1 Maker of haye to cockes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/1 Maker of naylles. 1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Gv^v They be both wodmongers, and makers of cooles. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xlv. 16 Makers of idoles. View more context for this quotation a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 65 I valued an Irish Cabbin at the number of days food, which the Maker spent in building of it. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §14. 259 The Makers [of these Instruments] have fitted an Ecliptic to it. 1771 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 147 At the bottom of the room is a table in which the maker has amazingly display'd his genius in disposing the different colours. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 314 The display of artistically constructed guns by the French makers in their Great Exposition of 1855. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 384 We procured some honey, which is taken from its makers in a very singular manner. 1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 52 The spurious gun may be either a gun represented as being of a quality it is not, or as a production of a maker other than the real one. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 726/2 The maker who wrote on the vessel from right to left the inscription, part of which [etc.]. 1947 Gramophone Oct. 74/1 This..has the..replaceable sapphire stylus, for which the makers claim 1,000 playings before replacement is necessary. 1988 Which? Jan. 9/2 There is no guarantee that the name of a maker is a safe guide to the car's country of origin. c. maker-up n. a person who makes up something or someone, formerly esp. in printing and in later use chiefly in textile and garment manufacture (see to make up 9f at make v.¹ Phrasal verbs 1). Cf. maker-upper n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun] clouterc1440 maker-up?a1444 botcher1499 repairer?1504 reparationer1520 patcher1528 bodger1538 repareller1546 mender1552 sarcinator1646 vamper1712 piecer1764 renovator1827 repairman1856 fixer?1881 serviceman1905 Mr Fixit1924 fixit man1949 fixit1982 society > communication > printing > printer > readers, collators, etc. > [noun] > one concerned with make-up of paper maker-up1891 ?a1444 Duke of Norfolk in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 23 We haue appoyntid you to be one of the makeres vp indifferently of the euydences betwix vs and the seide heires. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lviii. D Thou shalt be called the maker vp of hedges. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxix. 412 A maker up of the narrative from later and insecure traditions. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 64 One or two men, called ‘makers-up’, are employed for each box to keep drawing the wool through their hands, making it into a kind of ‘lap’. 1891 Daily News 16 Jan. 8/4 Wanted, overseer, in country printing office... Good maker-up. 1892 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) After the bodies and parts of Britannia metal goods have been shaped..the maker-up puts them together. 1955 Times 28 July 12/6 Taylor and Hartley (Textiles) have acquired the share capital of R. Olsen, makers-up, of Congleton. d. Without up. A person who carries out a particular stage in the manufacture, esp. by hand, of various items (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer > doing specific part of process finisher1691 rougher1874 maker1892 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Makers, the workmen who receive the tops and then complete the making of hand-sewn boots and shoes. The term is also applied to those who make the bottom (with the exception of the finishing) of a rivetted or machine-made boot. 1961 M. Jones Potbank viii. 29 The potter—the man who changes a lump of clay into a cup or a plate—is known in the potbank as the maker. 1993 Independent 9 Feb. 25/5 The ‘closer’ cuts the leather to the final shape and the ‘maker’ completes the operation by attaching the sole and the heel. 2. a. Modified by a possessive adjective (also by the or an attributive phrase). Used of God as the Creator of the universe. Now with capital initial. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > creator wrightc888 lightOE sheppendOE sheppera1175 wroughtc1275 creatorc1300 shaper1303 maker1340 workera1382 authora1413 workman1440 workmaster1531 artificer?1555 re-creator1587 architector1639 architect1659 enlivener1663 God almighty1787 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 251 Þe herte..y-ziȝþ hire zelue and hire makiere. c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 262 (MED) Ich leue ine god, uader almiȝti, makere of heuene and of erþe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 17875 Þis ilke liȝt forsoþe is he þat maker is of lastyng liȝt. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 319 Macare of noghte, as God only, creator. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 229 Flayt by him self to the makar off buffe. ?1507 Communyc. (W. de W.) B ij I was made to knowe my maker And to loue hym ouer all thynge. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xciv. [xcv.] 6 Let vs knele before the Lorde oure maker. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy Prol. 1 Maistur in mageste, maker of Alle. 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 54 O what is man (great maker of mankind). 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn ii, in Poems 3 Confounded, that her Makers eyes Should look so neer upon her foul deformities. 1718 I. Watts Hymn i Nature with open volume stands, To spread her Maker's praise abroad. 1751 Narr. Life J. Daniel xv. 206 It was but a creature..of the great Giver of life, and Maker of the world. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xxi. 83 The glorious sky embracing all Is like the Maker's love. 1849 I. Williams Altar i. 4 That unearthly stillness, more intense, Where man must meet his Maker, and be known. a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 221 Pious to God the Maker and to all He had made. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage viii. 27 How can you face your Maker when you've been breaking one of His laws in the afternoon? 1950 D. Cusack Morning Sacrifice in 3 Austral. Three-Act Plays iii. ii. 249 I do not know—and you do not know—perhaps only Sheila and her Maker shall ever know—what drove her to this desperate deed. 1985 Toronto Sun 10 Oct. 66 Moseby grabbed his bat again, had a quiet chat with his Maker, and reassured himself that nothing had happened here that they both still couldn't handle together. †b. (a) to receive (also take) one's Maker: to receive the consecrated host in the Eucharist. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > receive communion [phrase] houselOE to receive, take the sacrament?c1225 to receive one's Savioura1425 to take (also deliver, receive) (the) communion1440 to receive (also take) one's Maker1539 1539 T. Pery Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 145 That hys Grace..recewythe hys maker yerlye acording to the lawdebwll usse..of owr holly mother Chwrche. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Uiiij^v It was aboute Easter, at what tyme maidens gadded abrode, after thei had taken their maker, as thei cal it. 1564 T. Becon Compar. Lordes Supper & Popish Masse f. cxiii, in Wks. iii To celebrate the Lordes Supper, or as the Papistes terme it, to take their Hushel, or to receaue their maker. 1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) II. 100 Then he received his Maker [1485 Caxton ed. x. lxii, his creatoure]: and, when he was dead [etc.]. (b) A wafer of bread for use in the Eucharist. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > bread > [noun] fleshc1000 ofleteOE mannaa1200 breada1225 bread of lifea1300 host1303 bodya1325 obleya1325 God's bodya1387 cakec1390 singing bread1432 bread of wheata1450 singing loaf1530 God's bread1535 bread god?1548 round robin?1548 holy bread1552 singing cake1553 Jack-in-the-box1554 wafer-cake?1554 wafer1559 wafer-bread1565 breaden god1570 mass cake1579 wafer-god1623 hostel1624 maker1635 hostie1641 oblata1721 altar bread1839 prosphora1874 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 51 Henry Stephens writeth of a Dogge, that did eat 80 of their Hoasts, or Makers, in one morning. c. to meet one's Maker: (in extended use) to die; (sometimes humorously, of a thing) to be destroyed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end losec888 fallOE forlesea1225 perishc1275 spilla1300 to go to wreche13.. to go to the gatec1330 to go to lostc1374 miscarryc1387 quenchc1390 to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400 mischieve?a1400 tinea1400 to go to the devilc1405 bursta1450 untwindc1460 to make shipwreck1526 to go to (the) pot1531 to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547 wrake1570 wracka1586 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 to lie in the dusta1591 mischief1598 to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599 shipwreck1607 suffera1616 unravel1643 to fall off1684 tip (over) the perch1699 to do away with1769 to go to the dickens1833 collapse1838 to come (also go) a mucker1851 mucker1862 to go up1864 to go to squash1889 to go (to) stramash1910 to go for a burton1941 to meet one's Makera1978 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xv. 261 The wretched man had gone to meet his Maker in Farley's Footwear. 1967 in R. D. Abrahams Positively Black (1970) ii. 26 ‘Nigger boy,’ he said to me, ‘how'd you like to meet your maker right now?’ a1978 TV Times in A. P. Cowie et al. Oxf. Dict. Current Idiomatic Eng. (1983) II. 383/2 As these tired old notes meet their maker in Essex, a new load is on its way into our pockets. 1989 Premiere Dec. 42/4 His scriptwriter.., Nat Maudlin, almost met his maker thanks to a rafting expedition. 1997 Independent 20 May (Network Plus section) 3/3 Many a murderous, larcenous or otherwise socially irresponsible soul met his maker in this fashion. 3. a. A person who composes a book, draws up a document, frames a law, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] bookerOE writerOE makerc1350 authora1382 inditera1387 pena1398 poetc1400 bookmakera1425 ditera1425 compilera1500 compositor?1533 book writer1565 penner1568 authorizera1579 bookwright1583 scribe1584 epistler1592 penman1592 scriptora1600 composer1603 book-breeder1605 comprisor?1623 volumist1641 scrivenera1660 literatist1660 knight of the quill1692 belletrist1816 scriever1825 creative writer1854 penworker1876 c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 269 Þe makyere zayþ, ‘Þus, þus, now ssel eurich hys heuynesse ssake a-way uram drede.’ a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 11^v (MED) Here þis nede driueþ me to ouertourne auctors, þat is, techeris and makeris of bookys. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 566 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 206 Makare of þe saltere. 1485 Act 1 Hen. VII c. 7 The Maker of any such Warrant. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 8 Which acte..is so obscure..that the true entent of the makers therof cannot..be undrestond. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xvii. 13 Þe haly gast..that is makere of haly writ. 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.iij^v Whan they most supersticiously stycke to the letters of lawes not regardyng thintent of the makers. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. ix. 149 Lawes for the Church are not made as they should be, vnles the makers follow such direction as they ought to be guided by. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 306 The Makers of Civill Laws, are not onely Declarers, but also Makers of the justice, and injustice of actions. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 229 The makers of the act. 1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. ii. 20 There was a rambling statement that the maker of the will acknowledged Anna Murray to be his illegitimate daughter. 1932 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses vii. 128 The papers submitted on Tuesday were, in the main, satisfactory. They would be returned, with notations, to their makers, at the close of the hour. 1949 Notes & Queries 8 Jan. 1/2 The makers of the following inventory were John Josselyn and John Cook. b. With prefixed noun. Cf. sense 1a. ΚΠ c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. cxv David seiþ Lord sett þou a lawe maker upon hem. 1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde B vj Where so euer is a testament, there muste the death of the testament maker go betwene. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. at Poet A verse maker. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 109 Spiritual Affidavit makers. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 346 Our Map-makers..do not agree to it. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 150 A mere verse-maker, in whose numbers..there is no poetry. 1833 H. A. in Philol. Museum 2 442 Men who were not fable-makers or compilers of marvellous stories. 1902 J. B. Greenough & G. L. Kittredge Words 181 A controlling effect on the action of the early language-makers. 1928 M. Connolly Mr. Blue v. 98 The successful conversationalist is not the epigram-maker, for sustained brilliance is blinding. 1962 H. A. Gleason in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 88 A dictionary-maker need not include a non-idiomatic nonce-form. 1991 Tablet 21 Dec. 1577/2 Unlike theologians, carol-makers are not afraid of mystery; they celebrate it. 4. a. In various immaterial senses: a person who brings about or produces a condition, effect, state of mind, etc.; a creator or producer (of); †a person who appoints to an office (obsolete); †a contriver (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creator forgerc1380 authora1382 feigner1382 formerc1386 founderc1390 makera1450 plasmatoura1500 constitutor1531 framer1534 creator1548 fashioner1548 opificer1548 essentiator1561 creatress1590 effecter1591 compactor1593 moulder1594 creatrix1595 mouldress1599 effector1635 composer1644 plastic1644 opifex1649 fabricator1650 formator1656 efformer1662 essentializer1669 constituenta1676 crafter1907 a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 2682 (MED) And if we take any skathe..I dar wel swere That Malachias is chief maker. 1517 R. Fox Let. 30 Apr. (1929) 94 The Kyng that was my maker and promotor to the dignytie that I..doo occupye. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 21^v You be in deed, makers or marrers, of all mens maners within the Realme. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 29^v The greatest makers of loue, the daylie daliers. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 751 They..perceiuyng that the Castell of Barwicke was the onely maker of the peace. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 205 The maker of the bargaine. a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 409 All mainteyners, conspirators, makers of confederacie. 1714 A. Pope Corr. Oct. (1956) I. 265 Her Makers of Visits & Complements. 1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish ii. 66 I am a maker of war, and not a maker of phrases. 1871 S. Smiles Character i. 22 Great workers and great thinkers are the true makers of history. 1906 J. London White Fang iii. i. 121 He knew them for what they were—makers of law and executors of law. 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xi. 146 Homer K. Pringsheim is the power behind many a throne and the maker and breaker of many a film career. 1984 A. Livingstone Lou Andreas-Salomé vi. 93 All values are arbitrary and depend on us, their makers. b. With prefixed noun. Cf. sense 1a. ΚΠ 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 105 The Swanne pursueth the cockolde-maker.., & will not leaue the spouse breaker, tyll he kyll or bee killed. 1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. E5^v Death or destinie, or any of those period-makers. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 341 Who dully think all Foreigners Man-makers, Send out their Booby Sons to France, to Dress. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 12 Drink is..the widow-maker of their wives. 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City ii. 16 The calumny-makers. 1904 Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 5/6 Mr. James Welch to be Prominent Fun-maker at Drury Lane. 1924 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico (1927) 123 The intermittent black-and-white fantasy of the hopping Koshare, the jesters, the Delight-Makers. 1954 R. Lynes (title) Tastemakers. 1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) xix. 472 I had come to Kansas City to meet civilians, consumers of Goodson and Glaser..the taste-makers I have traveled halfway around the world to decode. 5. [Compare ancient Greek ποιητής poet n. (to which quot. a1586 refers).] A poet. Now archaic.In modern literary criticism, frequently in Scottish form makar (spec. with reference to a poet writing in Scots, esp. one of the 15th cent. or early 16th cent.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] versifierc1340 poeta1382 metrera1387 sayer?a1400 makerc1460 metrician?a1475 metrist?1545 singer1560 swannetc1560 songster1584 muse1596 Castalianist1607 metre-maker1611 versificator1611 swan1613 versemaker1647 verseman1652 Parnassian1658 bard1667 factist1676 poetic1687 minstrel1718 shaper1816 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 2462 (MED) I woll nat feyn oon woord, as makers doon to ryme. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 775 There ys no maker can reherse the tenthe part. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1453 Quhen gud makaris rang weill in-to Scotland. ?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 95 I se that makaris, amang the laif, Playis heir ther padȝanis, syne gois to graif. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 233 Than cam in Dunbar the mackar. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclix^v In wytte and in good reason of sentence he [sc. Chaucer] passeth al other makers. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vii. f. 26/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Owen Odewhee, a preacher, and a maker in Irishe. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1 Wherein I know not, whether by lucke or wisedome, wee Englishmen haue mette with the Greekes, in calling him a maker. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. 48 In the latter end of the same kings raigne sprong vp a new company of courtly makers, of whom Sir Thomas Wyat th'elder & Henry Earle of Surrey were the two chieftaines. 1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. viii. 98 Here all is in life and motion; here we behold the true Poet or Maker. 1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. II. v. 366 The simple names of the authors, or ‘makars’, with a brief and unsatisfying notice of the subjects of their composition, are all that remain. 1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew 3 An' hinmaist, the Hebrew Makars, gran' an' a' as they war, had a schule-man's gate o' their ain. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. iii. 66 ‘You found your pleasure in reading divine Poetry,’ said the Maker softly. 1878 A. B. Grosart in H. More Compl. Poems Introd. 46/1 To reinscribe the venerable name of Henry More among our real Makers and Singers. 1891 Dict. National Biogr. XXVI. 131/1 Henryson is the most Chaucerian of the Scottish ‘makaris’. 1908 Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 239 With James I the outlook changes, and in the poems of Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas and some of the minor ‘makars’ the manner of the earlier northern poetry survives only in stray places. 1976 J. Bayley Uses of Division ii. ii. 164 His continual awareness of the difference between the poet as maker and as person. 2008 Stirling Observer 12 Nov. 5 The process of appointing Stirling's first makar is under way. 6. †a. Cards. A wild card. Cf. bragger n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > cards of specific value in game sequent1620 lead1742 maker1753 stop1808 strong card1839 king card1850 brisque1870 honour card1876 penultimate1876 guard1885 thirteener1891 wild card1940 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > picture-card > jack > in specific games pur1592 Tom1647 maker1753 his heels1754 bragger1807 nob1821 right bower1839 1753 Scots Mag. 15 74/2 You'd rather hold—two aces and a maker. 1754 ‘Gyles Smith’ Refl. Card-playing 14 (Brag) Here the Power of the Knave is so great, that he is usually called a Maker. The Meaning is, that, whatever Company he comes into, he is enabled to make himself one of them. He is a Queen, with Queens; a King, with Kings; and an Ace, with Aces. b. Bridge. The player who makes the declaration. ΚΠ 1902 J. B. Elwell Bridge 24 When the ‘maker’ is on your right, you have the advantage that your trumps are over his. 1915 H. H. Asquith Lett. to Venetia Stanley (1982) 360 We had rather amazing Bridge... The last named is a foolish & adventurous maker—a regular gambler: & my modest partner & I made (unfortunately at low stakes) many points. †7. Law. The person who signs a promissory note. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > [noun] > subscribing to a document > one who subscriber1574 underwritera1639 underscriber1681 undersubscriber1681 undersigner1753 maker1848 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 398/1 Maker, the person who signs a promissory note, who stands in the same situation, after the note is endorsed, as the acceptor of a bill of exchange. Compounds maker's mark n. an identifying mark struck by the maker on a piece of gold, silver, or plate; also figurative. ΚΠ 1852 A. Ryland Assay of Gold & Silver iv. 51 In this section three classes of marks are mentioned: first, the maker's mark,..second, ‘the marks of the said Company of Goldsmiths in London’..; and third, ‘the marks appointed to be used by the assayers’. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer xiii. 142 With Homer the maker's mark never obtrudes the maker, or places him between the reader and the theme. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 28/3 Many of these lovely pieces bear the maker's mark. 1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 55 Maker's mark, IH, with fleur-de-lis between pellets below in a shaped shield. 1990 Antique Collector Oct. 34 (caption) A bombé gold snuff box with unusually crisp chasing; maker's mark of Joli & Chevenard, Geneva circa 1825. Derivatives ˈmakeress n. a female maker of something (in quot. 1857 as the compound brick-makeress).Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1857 Househ. Words 16 411/2 Brick-makers and brick-makeresses jolting up and down on planks. ˈmakership n. rare the position or office of maker or creator. ΚΠ 1863 F. Hall in Reader 24 Jan. 95 We should much like to know..whether the Magian sage [sc. Zoroaster] seems to have had any idea of Makership apart from a material cause. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1297
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