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单词 manslayer
释义

manslayern.

Brit. /ˈmansleɪə/, U.S. /ˈmænsleɪər/
Forms:

α. Middle English manscleer, Middle English manslear, Middle English mansleere, Middle English manslere, Middle English monsleer, Middle English monsleere, Middle English monsler, Middle English–1500s mansleer; Scottish pre-1700 mansleyar.

β. Middle English man-slaare, Middle English manslaer, Middle English man sloer, Middle English menslores; Scottish pre-1700 manslaar, pre-1700 manslaare, pre-1700 manslaer, pre-1700 menslaris (plural).

γ. 1600s– manslayer; Scottish pre-1700 manslayar, pre-1700 manslayer.

In plural also Middle English men-; Scottish pre-1700 men-.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: man n.1, slayer n.1
Etymology: < man n.1 + slayer n.1 Compare earlier manslaghe n.
1. A person who kills human beings; a murderer; (occasionally) a person who commits manslaughter (now archaic). In quot. 1998 at γ. in extended use: a woman who habitually and expertly seduces men (cf. ladykiller n. at lady n. Compounds 2e).
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the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun]
manslagheOE
manquellera1250
men-quellerc1325
manslayera1382
men-slayera1400
homicide1421
man-killera1500
dead-slayer1535
kill-man1598
man-slaughterer?1611
α.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xxiv. 14 Erli first wijseþ þe mansleere, & he sleþ þe nedi & þe pore.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 112 Þese were proud men,..Extorcioners, monslers.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PPPiiii He that hateth his brother, is a man slear.
1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. f. 190 Mischant mensleyaris.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem ii. f. 49 Mansleyar.
β. 1398–9 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 211/1 Manslaerys reiferis brynneris.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 16441 Þe man-slaer, he barabas.c1480 (a1400) St. Theodora 258 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 106 Sa ma þu þe sauf fra hel quhare man-slaare sal ay duel.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 58 (MED) The sext commaundis thou shal not be Man sloer, for gold ne fee, Ne for luf ne for hate.1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 220 Without scho do scho will be notifyd A manslaar.γ. 1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest iii. sig. A4v The third part of the people in the Eird, war not left vnplukit away, be sic ane cruell miserable tiran & manslayar.a1586 De Regimine Principum 279 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 124 [A king pardoning too readily] may weill vnderstand..That he is manslayar of ane thousand ma.1611 Bible (King James) Num. xxxv. 12 And they shall be vnto you cities for refuge from the auenger, that the man-slayer die not, vntill he stand before the Congregation in iudgement. View more context for this quotation1635 Visct. Wentworth Let. 27 Jan. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 286 They that made me the manslayer of the E. of St. Albans, will impute my Lo. Mountnorris unto me for willfull and plaine murther.1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 280 All your Airs breathe as strongly of the Manslayer as of the Libertine.1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vi. 171 That the manslayer withdrew into a foreign land and did not return to his country, till [etc.].1860 J. L. Krapf Trav. E. Afr. iii. ii. 448 There are four such sanctuaries..where a man-slayer is safe from pursuit.1906 N.Y. Evening Post 5 Nov. 6 He even appointed a typical ‘bad man’—that is manslayer—to office as a proof of his fondness for Arizona.1982 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East (B.B.C.) 20 Apr. FE/7006/C/4 The inhuman acts committed in the name of Islam by these murderers and manslayers.1998 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 16 Feb. 3 Before Bronstein, the legendary manslayer dated Columbia Pictures boss Barry Josephson, who complained that the starlet's insecurities were driving him up a studio wall.
2. An executioner. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > executioner
manquellera1275
officer?1387
smiterc1390
manslayera1425
man's quellerc1429
baserc1480
butcher1483
executora1513
slaughter-slave1556
carnifex1561
executioner1561
deathsman1589
verdugo1616
hals-mana1658
α.
a1425 (?1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 388 Heroude..sente for a man-sleere [Mark 6:27].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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