单词 | praiser |
释义 | praisern. 1. a. A person who praises or commends someone or something; a eulogist. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > one who commends or praises lover?c1225 praisera1382 allower1528 advancer1536 commendera1568 emblazoner1591 encomiast1610 lauder1611 benedictor1614 extollera1626 encomiaster1676 exalter1678 preconizer1711 eulogist1808 proneur1809 laudator1825 eulogizer1837 belauder1884 psalmist1884 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Prov. xxvii. 21 So is preued a man in þe mouþ of preiseris [a1425 L.V. preyseris]. c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2367 The swete wordes of flaterynge preiseres. c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies i. xiii, in Anglia (1885) 8 150 (MED) Whos holy mannes name I reherce not..for he is proued in þe mouþe of preysers, as golde in a furneys. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 18 As the prynces of the worlde gyueth worldly rewarde to her praysers; so shall I rewarde him gostly. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 30 I have bene a praiser of none save phisicians. 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 472 Let your owne conscience be your owne prayser. 1684 J. Banks Island Queens i. i. 2 'Tis worse than Death for me to hear A fawning Cringer, or submissive Praiser. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxii. 245 Lady Davers was one of the kind Praisers. 1776 Mem. Demi-rep of Fashion II. xxxvi. 154 Every one..never hears the praises of another without aiming to lessen her in the esteem of the praiser. 1809 H. More Coelebs in Search of Wife II. xxxv. 141 Sir John observed, that I was rather too young to be a praiser of past times. 1889 W. Pater Appreciations 254 The term classical..has often been used in a hard, and merely scholastic sense, by the praisers of what is old and accustomed, at the expense of what is new. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 284 Stephen began to enumerate glibly his father's attributes.—A medical student, an oarsman, a tenor,..a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past. 1989 B. Vickers Returning to Shakespeare 125 The fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and..reveal their true nature. 2005 Greenville (S. Carolina) News (Nexis) 27 Sept. 1 c When Spurrier gets USC to higher ground, those who booed will be the loudest praisers. b. A person who offers praise to a deity; a worshipper. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > [noun] > worshipper heryera950 loutera1340 worshipperc1384 honourera1425 praiserc1452 fearer1535 adorer1572 sectary1590 churchgoer1598 thanksgivera1622 votary1639 theophile1647 God-fearer1668 theophilist1677 sacricolist1727 kirk-goer1754 bhakta1828 c1452 J. Capgrave Treat. Augustine Orders in J. J. Munro Capgrave's Lives St. Augustine & St. Gilbert (1910) 145 (MED) Iudas is as mech to sey as a preyser, and þese men preise God nyte & day in holy songis & ympnis. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 29 (MED) Suche preising..availith principaly for to gendre and contynue and to kepe in þe preiser greet..loue anentis god. 1610 A. Willet Hexapla in Danielem 170 They are praisers of images. 1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 176 The loudest praiser of God. 1888 Catholic World Sept. 727 [Choristers] with whose singing their souls are no more in personal communion than they would be with the music of a hand-organ—hired praisers who ought long ago have gone out with the hired mourners. 2005 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 13 Aug. 17 a Smart passed away August 11, 2005, a devoted praiser of Jehovah God and Christ Jesus. c. = praise poet n. at praise n. Compounds 2. Cf. imbongi n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > formal expression of praise > [noun] > one who composes or utters > composer or reciter of praise poem imbongi1836 praiser1836 praise-reciter1935 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > praise poet praiser1836 praise poet1935 praise-reciter1935 mbongo1948 griot1968 1836 A. F. Gardiner Narr. Journey Zoolu Country 65 We were accompanied by the two Imbōngas, or professed praisers of the King. a1873 J. Burrow Trav. in Wilds (1971) 74 The Chief never stirred without his ‘praisers’, namely, those men who did nothing but extol him until they fell foaming at the mouth like so many madmen. 1904 D. Kidd Essent. Kafir ii. 92 All chiefs keep a Court Praiser, whose business it is to go in front of the chief and sing his praises. 1953 ‘P. Lanham’ & A. S. Mopeli-Paulus Blanket Boy's Moon i. vi. 57 His grandfather had been a praiser of the Great Chief Moshoeshoe, and had praised him after the Battle of Tlapaneng. 1983 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 26 May 9 The praiser's duty was to extol his chief and confound his enemies with a licence that had no regard for truth or even possibility. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] > one who appraises peisera1382 praiser1424 judge1485 sessor1496 esteemer1551 count-maker1556 rater1611 estimatora1665 appraiser1688 assessor1722 appreciator1728 prizer1749 valuer1799 1424 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1909) 289 (MED) Suche takyng schall be made at the verrey valu without that the preysers be constreyned by threthyng or duresse to set ony other price. 1491 Will of Stokes (Somerset Ho.) The Bisshopes praysours. 1529 Act 21 Hen. VIII c. 5 §2 Their regesters, scribes, praisers, sommoners, apparatours. 1544 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 160 Rychard Ferres..for to be one of the Comen preysers in this Cytye. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Appreciateur, a praiser, rater, valuer. 1624 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 219 Oxe money..to be assessed by the foure Marchant praysers. 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. 205 The Chancellor of the Exchequer..hath the Gift of the two Praisers of the Court. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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