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murderern. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: murder v., -er suffix1; French murdreour, mordreur. Etymology: Partly < murder v. + -er suffix1, and partly < Anglo-Norman murdreour, murdrer, murdrere, murthrur, mourdrer, mourdrere and Old French mordreur (12th cent.), mourdreur, murdreur, murtreur (13th cent.; compare murtrier murdrier n.) < mordrir , murdrir , murtrir murder v. + -eour , -eur -er suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin murdrarius (from 1214 in British sources; also as murtrarius ). Compare earlier murther n.1 1. the world > life > death > killing > killer > [noun] the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin α. 1340 (1866) 171 Efterward he is moyrdrer [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues murþerour] of þe kinges doȝter, þet is of his oȝene zaule..þet he heþ yslaȝe be dyadlich zenne. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) viii. 1958 Slain is the moerdrer and moerdrice. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer 2390 He wol nat, for shame..serve yow as a morderour [v.r. murtherer] or a knave. (Harl. 221) 342 Moordrare [v.r. Moorederere], sicarius. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre (1894) I. lf. 31 Y had leuer to be murdrid than a murdrere. 1509 J. Fisher (de Worde) sig. Aiiij Kynge Dauid..all be it he had ben an auoutrer & murdrer also, yet [etc.]. 1582–3 9 Feb. To vnderly the lawis for the samin as ane plane murderar. a1631 J. Donne (1959) IV. 55 A Sheriffe that should burne him, who were condemned to be hanged, were a murderer, though that man must have dyed. 1678 J. Bunyan (ed. 2) 188 Hast thou forgotten the Hell, whither for certain the murderers go? 1721 J. Aubrey i. 97 So certainly does the Revenge of God pursue the abominated Murderer. 1781 E. Gibbon III. xxx. 139 (note) Those female captives, who gave their charms, and even their hearts, to the murderers of their fathers, brothers, &c. 1818 M. W. Shelley I. vi. 141 His friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest: he does not now feel the murderer's grasp. 1894 ‘A. Hope’ xiii. 184 The king being dead, his murderer swiftly ties a weight to the body. 1943 G. Greene i. ii. 29 Murderers..are very, very seldom..gentlemen. Outside of story-books. 1987 J. Wilcox ix. 133 Romance had been temporarily routed by a vision of herself as the niece of a murderer. the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. vi. 275 (MED) For morthereres [v.rr. morþereris, morareres] aren mony leches..Þei do men deye þorw here drynkes. c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer 353 There was..The swalwe, mortherere [v.rr. mortherer, murdrer] of the foules smale That maken hony of floures freshe of hewe. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in (1846) I. 62 Those murtheraris the Gray Frearis. c1585 R. Browne 15 The sinner is the murtherer of his owne soule. 1607 B. Jonson ii. ii. sig. Ev Had old Hippocrates, or Galen..But knowne this secret, they had neuer..Beene murderers of so much paper. View more context for this quotation 1611 1 John iii. 15 Whosoeuer hateth his brother, is a murtherer. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. v. 19 Lye not, to say mine eyes are murtherers. 1677 W. Wycherley iii. 42 You Green Bag Carrier, you Murderer of unfortunate Causes, the Clerks Ink is scarce off of your fingers. 1738 Apr. 208/2 King Alfred, who hang'd 44 Judges in one Year, as Murtherers of the Law. 1797 W. Godwin i. iii. 17 It is the unrelenting murderer of hope and gaiety. 1834 41 288 In a battue..the shooting is for the stick, as it is technically phrased—not for the pleasure, but the pride of the murderer of hecatombs. 1975 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran v. 161 I dream of a murderer of all nouns and all adjectives, of all these horrible eructations. 1984 A. Copland & V. Perlis vi. 104 The real murderers of music are the unimaginative standpatters among conductors. society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treacherous person c1390 G. Chaucer 4416 O false mordrour lurkynge in thy den! O newe Scariot! newe Genyloun! False dissimilour, o Greek Synoun! a1460 (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 2226 (MED) This..part..Halt prouidence of myghtiest bataile, The morthereer to bringe vndir the cheyne. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > small or short pieces 1495 in H. L. Blackmore (1976) I. 256 Gonne named mumdrer [perh. read murdrer] withoute chamber and forelock. 1497 in M. Oppenheim (1896) 338 Morderers of yron..ij. 1514 in H. L. Blackmore (1976) I. 236 In primys xij grett peces of Iron called morderers wt xiiij chambers and all ther aparell. 1563 in J. Nicolson & R. Burn (1777) II. 223 In the Citadel... Small serpentines 2, fowlers 2, murderers 2. 1617 J. Taylor sig. A4v The Dolphin..hauing ih her 19. cast Pieces [of Ordnance], and 5. Murtherers. 1628 R. Norton xiv. 59 Morter Peeces, Square Murtherers, Tortles, and Pettards are the sorts of the fourth kind of Ordnance. 1634 (1865) 20 We haue built a strong Fort & Palizado, and haue mounted vpon it one good piece of Ordnance, and 4 Murderers. 1670 No. 436/1 This week the same Fregats took another prize from the Turks being a vessel of 6 Guns 4 Murtherers and 60 men. 1704 J. Harris I Murderers, are small Pieces of Ordnance, either of Brass or Iron, having Chambers (that is Charges made of Brass or Iron) put in at their Breeches: They are mostly used at Sea at the Bulk-heads of the Fore~castle, Half-deck, or Steeridge, in order to clear the Decks when an Enemy boards the Ship; they are fastned and traversed by a Pintle, which is put into a Stock. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Murderer, the name formerly used for large blunderbusses, as well as for those small pieces of ordnance which were loaded by shifting metal chambers placed in the breech. 1888 J. A. Goodwin 318 Samuel Maverick..lived in a fortified house, crowned by four of the little breech-loading cannon then called ‘murderers’. 1981 Nov. 136/1 These breech-loading weapons, mounted on the ship's rail, were commonly called ‘murderers’ because they often did as much damage to those who fired them as to those they were aimed at. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] c1500 Robert Deuyll in W. J. Thoms (1828) I. 10 Robert gate a murderer or bodkin, and thrast his mayster in the bely that his guttes fell at his fete, and so fell downe deed to the erth. a1685 M. Evelyn Fop-dict. 19 in (1690) Meurtrieres. Murderers; a certain Knot in the Hair, which ties and unites the Curls. the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] > hooks fastened together 1883 R. M. Fergusson xii. 79 There is a method of catching deep-sea cod..by means of an instrument called a ‘murderer’,..consisting of a long bar of lead measuring about eighteen inches, with numerous hooks attached, and suspended at the end of a long strong line. This instrument is towed at the stern of the fishing boat, and by its means many a large cod bids farewell to the Pentland Firth. 1883 12 ‘Murderer’ for catching Codfish. Compounds Appositive. 1995 22 Dec. 4/3 Providence has also provided mankind with murderer-popes, perjurer-popes and even heretic-popes. 1592 iii. i. E 1 Beset With murtherer theeues that came to rifle me. Derivatives 1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier iii. ii. 37 The sword Which murdrer-like against thy selfe he drawes. 1730 W. Harte 33 A third..Murd'rer-like, calls Blushes from the dead. 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