单词 | misleader |
释义 | misleadern. A person who or thing which misleads people. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > who governs badly misleadera1393 misgovernor1509 misruler1554 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > one who entraps beswiker1340 catcherc1450 fodea1529 misleader1579 Sinon1581 entrapper1587 siren1592 snarer1597 flycatcher1600 ensnarer1631 decoy1639 decoy-ducka1640 trepan1653 trepanner1659 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 3021 Thou Bonefas, thou proude clerk, Misledere of the Papacie. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 774/2 A great number..which..were misleaders, & loued to disguise matters. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 467 That villanous abhominable misleader of youth, Falstalffe. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xi. 562/1 To deliuer the Realme from the misleaders of the King. 1706 N. Rowe Ulysses v. i. 61 Thou rash Mis-leader of this giddy Crowd. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. i. 1 Delicacy, too, is often a misleader. 1853 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 546 That Cleon, and men of his stamp..were by no means the worst misleaders of the Athenian people. 1868 J. Doran Saints & Sinners II. 83 He denounced both song and music as misleaders. 1903 G. B. Shaw Revolutionist's Handbk. vii, in Man & Superman 204 The Socialist..is denounced as a misleader of the people. 1971 E. Afr. Jrnl. Mar. 27/1 No African is foreign to another, the speeches and actions of some present misleaders..notwithstanding. 1988 P. Toynbee End of Journey 61 The ‘great’ theologians have been great misleaders far more than great enlighteners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1393 |
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