单词 | ower |
释义 | owern.ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner ownerOE owerc1350 proprietary1473 proprietar1489 proprietor1537 proprietory1548 propriary1606 impropriator1631 propriate1660 propriétaire1789 main-master1845 prop.?1880 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 95 (MED) Al hys þefte þat man teȝt Myd wyl of wymynghede [read wynnynghede] Aȝens þe ryȝt oȝeres wyl. 1425 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 11 (MED) Sche..put owt on john Eleyne, þanne holder and ower of þe same place and land. 1447 Rolls of Parl. V. 139/2 The owers of the seide Catell may never come to have replevyn of thaym. a1475 Revelations St. Birgitta (Garrett) (1929) 48 (MED) He puttyth itt in-to the iij place, wher it is kepte tyll it be presentede to the ower. 2. A person who owes something; a debtor. In later use only with of. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > debtor debtorc1290 yielder1340 borrowerc1440 ower?c1475 debitor1483 redevable1502 creditee1541 Dr.1663 ticker1753 ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 6v (MED) An awer: debitor. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xvii. 1 in Wks. (1640) III They are not, Sir, worst Owers, that doe pay Debts when they can. 1946 W. D. Lamont Princ. Moral Judgement iii. 87 The ower of a duty must be capable of having ‘interests’, i.e. he must be a conative being. 1998 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 25 May b4 The ower of back taxes would benefit from the sale of the blighted property. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1350 |
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