promptern.

Brit.

/ˈprɒm(p)tə/, U.S.

/ˈprɑm(p)tər/

Forms: see prompt v. and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prompt v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < prompt v. + -er suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin promptator (see quot. 1440 at sense 1).

1. A person who urges, incites, or moves another to action; an instigator; (also) a thing which gives rise to or precipitates a condition, state, or action, a stimulus.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates

prickera1382

stirrerc1384

enticerc1386

exciter1387

risera1398

solicitor1412

erterc1440

prompter1440

stirrer?1533

motionerc1535

author1546

onsetter1549

stinger1552

setter-on1560

incentor1570

incensora1575

mover1578

whetter1579

out-hounder1596

hounder1597

egger on1598

inciter1598

instigator1598

urger1598

motive1600

fomenter1607

inflamer1609

fetcher in?1611

provokera1616

putter-ona1616

monitor1616

spurrer1632

outputter1639

poddera1640

commoter1646

impulsor1653

shaker and mover1874

agent provocateur1888

impeller1889

sooler1935

spark plug1941

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 415 Promptare [?a1475 Winch. Promtare], or he þat promptythe [v.r. promptowre], promptator.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxvj The Mayre aunswered, that he..neded neither of prompter, nor yet of Coadiutor, either to defend or gouerne the citie.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xix. xii. 141 Paulus..was the prompter and succentor of these cruell enterludes.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxix. sig. Aa^v Sometimes a failing and returne, is a prompter to a surer hold.

1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus iii. i Come my best prompter, with indeavours wings Let's cut the ayre.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 288 The Devil is..an apparent Prompter to wickedness, if he is not the first Mover of it.

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. iv. ii. 89 Is it consistent with reason or common sense, to be the aider or abettor of another man's folly; perhaps the prompter: for it is no uncommon thing with persons to inflame the passions of their frends, rather than allay them.

1812 C. Bruce Let. 22 Jan. in I. Bruce Nun of Lebanon (1951) ii. xiii. 173 I shall also hope..that she would become your Monitor and prompter to act otherwise.

1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 130 No greater prompter of good fellowship.

1934 L. P. Jacks Revolt against Mechanism i. 27 Once we get them [sc. tools and weapons] into our hands they become prompters of actions they never were intended to perform.

1990 M. Klein Determinism, Blameworthiness, & Deprivation v. 121 It is because the desire he decides to fulfil is not the immediate prompter of the decision.

a. A person in a theatre placed in a position next to the stage but out of sight of the audience, in order to be able to prompt the actors.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > prompter

book-bearer1530

book holder1585

prompter1585

ordinary1602

under-prompter1781

prompt1969

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 501/2 Monitor,..he that telleth the players their part when they are out, and haue forgotten: the prompter, or booke holder.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. ii. 85 Were it my Qu. to fight, I should haue knowne it, Without a prompter .

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 193. ⁋2 A Letter from poor old Downes the Prompter, wherein that Retainer of the Theatre desires my Advice.

c1777–8 in J. L. Hodgkinson & R. Pogson Early Manch. Theatre (1960) 82 Or more Extras [to be employed] than cannot be avoided—the Bill for them to be signed by the Prompter.

1804 Lit. Mag. Mar. 432/2 Slight embarrassment checked him, and he paused..the prompter made himself heard by every one but the bewildered Malcolm, who still continued mute.

1832 W. Dunlap Hist. Amer. Theatre 54 The office of prompter, so essential in a theatre, was filled by Mrs. Hemsworth, who occasionally played.

1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xvii. 144 Everybody being more or less inaudible, with the solitary exception of the Prompter.

1927 Mod. Lang. Notes 42 79 An actor off-stage, not following the course of the play, must be notified by the prompter of his approaching entrance.

1992 S. Berkoff Coriolanus in Deutschland 8 Lights out. The prompter flings the book open. Swinish characters shouting a lot. Actors with funny voices.

b. gen. A person who or thing which provides a prompt or reminder.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] > one who assists

prompter1592

memorista1682

1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. C3 He stood like a trewant that lackt a prompter.

1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xv. 188 The very season was a kinde of prompter to remember them of that.

1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 77 We pray without a Monitor or promptor because we do it from the heart, or from our own breast.

1725 New Canting Dict. (at Clergy) The Ordinary..replies Legit ut Clericus, i. e., He reads like a Clerk; when, perhaps, he only repeats his Lesson after his whispering Prompter.

1830 A. Heber Life R. Heber I. i. 31 His brother..was sitting behind him as prompter, and..immediately checked him.

1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board II. xi. 90 After two or three years, she was able to spell out her words without a prompter.

1938 W. R. Sharp Govt. French Republic v. 123 These officials act as ‘prompters’ for their departmental chief by supplying him with such factual information as he may need in defending his policy.

1976 B. Casey Compl. Bk. Square Dancing 4 Prompters or callers chanted or sang gay improvised directions..and filled in with..‘patter’ to allow time for execution of the dance.

1991 Artist Nov. 23/1 Because I rely upon the accuracy of the visual information it is beneficial to have colour notes as a prompter to memory.

3. Originally and chiefly U.S. A teleprompter, an autocue.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > electronic prompter

prompter1950

teleprompter1951

autocue1953

1950 N.Y. Times 13 Dec. 56/1 Television's bugaboo—the fear of forgetting lines in front of cameras—has been virtually ended by an electronic prompter... The script is typed on a wide sheet of paper and unrolled from a spool upward behind a glass... Perfection of the prompter took two years.

1976 Listener 18 Mar. 343/2 As Angela Rippon is reading off the prompter..she tires.

2005 A. S. Utterback Broadcast Voice Handbk. 197 On a prompter the words just keep scrolling by in an endless stream.

Compounds

Compounds with prompter's.

prompter's bell n. the bell used by a prompter in a theatre to signal to the actors, stagehands, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > prompting equipment

prompter's bell1779

prompt bell1784

prompter's table1834

prompt table1844

1779 L. MacNally Apotheosis of Punch i. 13 But hark! the prompter's bell rings.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 238 The jingling of her keys as she approached was to Dolph like the ringing of the prompter's bell, that gives notice of a theatrical thunder storm.

1975 Mod. Philol. 73 42 The circled dot on either side is a conventional signal for the prompter's bell or whistle which alerts the scenemen.

prompter's book n. a play script, opera score, opera, etc., marked up for use by a prompter; = prompt book n.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > prompter's copy

prompter's book1725

prompter's copy1746

prompt book1768

prompt copy1792

prompt script1920

1725 A. Pope Wks. Shakespear I. Pref. 17 It appears that this edition, as well as the Quarto's, was printed (at least partly) from no better copies than the Prompter's Book, or Piece-meal Parts written out for the use of the actors.

1815 Old Eng. Plays IV. 223 They who republish such dramas as have hitherto only been printed from..the prompter's books are entitled to much indulgence.

1997 Cambr. Opera Jrnl. 9 205 M.H. 10691 seems to be a prompter's book, with..a few instrumental incipits..supplied in red crayon.

prompter's box n. a box on a stage, typically in the centre in front of the footlights, where the prompter sits.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > prompter's box

prompter's box1775

prompt box1859

1775 F. Abington Let. in Private Corr. D. Garrick (1832) II. 32 Begging leave to sit in the prompter's box.

1841 Times 25 Oct. 7/4 A basket of raw meat is placed in the middle of the stage, within a yard or two of the prompter's box.

1926 S. M. Waxman Antoine & Théâtre-Libre iv. 68 [He] lost his nerve on seeing the prompter's box empty, stumbled through the first few lines, and withdrew.

1988 Eighteenth-Cent. Stud. 22 169 She faked a few strums on the instrument while a guitarist hidden in the prompter's box provided the sounds.

prompter's copy n. = prompt book n.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > prompter's copy

prompter's book1725

prompter's copy1746

prompt book1768

prompt copy1792

prompt script1920

1746 J. Upton Crit. Observ. Shakespeare ii. xiv. 262 This being written in the prompter's copy, by way of direction to the players, the unattending printer mixed them with the poet's own words.

1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 15 July 5/6 (advt.) Only the Books [of the opera] that are sold inside the gates do correspond with the stage representation. They..have been printed from the Prompter's copy.

1926 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 41 663 An author's original MS might be sent to the Censor for endorsement and then serve as the original prompter's copy.

1988 Mod. Philol. 85 418 Editions published after the author's death, sometimes allegedly corrected from the prompter's copy.

prompter's table n. the table at which the prompter sits.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > prompting equipment

prompter's bell1779

prompt bell1784

prompter's table1834

prompt table1844

1834 W. C. Macready Diary 10 June (1912) I. 152 I came up and was first at rehearsal; from the prompter's table I wrote a hasty note to R. Price.

1889 J. L. Toole Reminisc. I. i. 29 I was sitting at the prompter's table, when I heard a voice at my elbow.

1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June n9 According to the legend,..the actor's ghost..makes himself visible near the prompter's table whenever a new show is being readied.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prompter
释义	promptern. Brit. /ˈprɒm(p)tə/, U.S. /ˈprɑm(p)tər/ Forms: see prompt v. and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prompt v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < prompt v. + -er suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin promptator (see quot. 1440 at sense 1). 1. A person who urges, incites, or moves another to action; an instigator; (also) a thing which gives rise to or precipitates a condition, state, or action, a stimulus. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates prickera1382 stirrerc1384 enticerc1386 exciter1387 risera1398 solicitor1412 erterc1440 prompter1440 stirrer?1533 motionerc1535 author1546 onsetter1549 stinger1552 setter-on1560 incentor1570 incensora1575 mover1578 whetter1579 out-hounder1596 hounder1597 egger on1598 inciter1598 instigator1598 urger1598 motive1600 fomenter1607 inflamer1609 fetcher in?1611 provokera1616 putter-ona1616 monitor1616 spurrer1632 outputter1639 poddera1640 commoter1646 impulsor1653 shaker and mover1874 agent provocateur1888 impeller1889 sooler1935 spark plug1941 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 415 Promptare [?a1475 Winch. Promtare], or he þat promptythe [v.r. promptowre], promptator. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxvj The Mayre aunswered, that he..neded neither of prompter, nor yet of Coadiutor, either to defend or gouerne the citie. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xix. xii. 141 Paulus..was the prompter and succentor of these cruell enterludes. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxix. sig. Aa^v Sometimes a failing and returne, is a prompter to a surer hold. 1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus iii. i Come my best prompter, with indeavours wings Let's cut the ayre. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 288 The Devil is..an apparent Prompter to wickedness, if he is not the first Mover of it. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. iv. ii. 89 Is it consistent with reason or common sense, to be the aider or abettor of another man's folly; perhaps the prompter: for it is no uncommon thing with persons to inflame the passions of their frends, rather than allay them. 1812 C. Bruce Let. 22 Jan. in I. Bruce Nun of Lebanon (1951) ii. xiii. 173 I shall also hope..that she would become your Monitor and prompter to act otherwise. 1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 130 No greater prompter of good fellowship. 1934 L. P. Jacks Revolt against Mechanism i. 27 Once we get them [sc. tools and weapons] into our hands they become prompters of actions they never were intended to perform. 1990 M. Klein Determinism, Blameworthiness, & Deprivation v. 121 It is because the desire he decides to fulfil is not the immediate prompter of the decision. 2. a. A person in a theatre placed in a position next to the stage but out of sight of the audience, in order to be able to prompt the actors. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > prompter book-bearer1530 book holder1585 prompter1585 ordinary1602 under-prompter1781 prompt1969 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 501/2 Monitor,..he that telleth the players their part when they are out, and haue forgotten: the prompter, or booke holder. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. ii. 85 Were it my Qu. to fight, I should haue knowne it, Without a prompter . View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 193. ⁋2 A Letter from poor old Downes the Prompter, wherein that Retainer of the Theatre desires my Advice. c1777–8 in J. L. Hodgkinson & R. Pogson Early Manch. Theatre (1960) 82 Or more Extras [to be employed] than cannot be avoided—the Bill for them to be signed by the Prompter. 1804 Lit. Mag. Mar. 432/2 Slight embarrassment checked him, and he paused..the prompter made himself heard by every one but the bewildered Malcolm, who still continued mute. 1832 W. Dunlap Hist. Amer. Theatre 54 The office of prompter, so essential in a theatre, was filled by Mrs. Hemsworth, who occasionally played. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xvii. 144 Everybody being more or less inaudible, with the solitary exception of the Prompter. 1927 Mod. Lang. Notes 42 79 An actor off-stage, not following the course of the play, must be notified by the prompter of his approaching entrance. 1992 S. Berkoff Coriolanus in Deutschland 8 Lights out. The prompter flings the book open. Swinish characters shouting a lot. Actors with funny voices. b. gen. A person who or thing which provides a prompt or reminder. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] > one who assists prompter1592 memorista1682 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. C3 He stood like a trewant that lackt a prompter. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xv. 188 The very season was a kinde of prompter to remember them of that. 1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 77 We pray without a Monitor or promptor because we do it from the heart, or from our own breast. 1725 New Canting Dict. (at Clergy) The Ordinary..replies Legit ut Clericus, i. e., He reads like a Clerk; when, perhaps, he only repeats his Lesson after his whispering Prompter. 1830 A. Heber Life R. Heber I. i. 31 His brother..was sitting behind him as prompter, and..immediately checked him. 1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board II. xi. 90 After two or three years, she was able to spell out her words without a prompter. 1938 W. R. Sharp Govt. French Republic v. 123 These officials act as ‘prompters’ for their departmental chief by supplying him with such factual information as he may need in defending his policy. 1976 B. Casey Compl. Bk. Square Dancing 4 Prompters or callers chanted or sang gay improvised directions..and filled in with..‘patter’ to allow time for execution of the dance. 1991 Artist Nov. 23/1 Because I rely upon the accuracy of the visual information it is beneficial to have colour notes as a prompter to memory. 3. Originally and chiefly U.S. A teleprompter, an autocue. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > electronic prompter prompter1950 teleprompter1951 autocue1953 1950 N.Y. Times 13 Dec. 56/1 Television's bugaboo—the fear of forgetting lines in front of cameras—has been virtually ended by an electronic prompter... The script is typed on a wide sheet of paper and unrolled from a spool upward behind a glass... Perfection of the prompter took two years. 1976 Listener 18 Mar. 343/2 As Angela Rippon is reading off the prompter..she tires. 2005 A. S. Utterback Broadcast Voice Handbk. 197 On a prompter the words just keep scrolling by in an endless stream. Compounds Compounds with prompter's. prompter's bell n. the bell used by a prompter in a theatre to signal to the actors, stagehands, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > prompting equipment prompter's bell1779 prompt bell1784 prompter's table1834 prompt table1844 1779 L. MacNally Apotheosis of Punch i. 13 But hark! the prompter's bell rings. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 238 The jingling of her keys as she approached was to Dolph like the ringing of the prompter's bell, that gives notice of a theatrical thunder storm. 1975 Mod. Philol. 73 42 The circled dot on either side is a conventional signal for the prompter's bell or whistle which alerts the scenemen. prompter's book n. a play script, opera score, opera, etc., marked up for use by a prompter; = prompt book n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > prompter's copy prompter's book1725 prompter's copy1746 prompt book1768 prompt copy1792 prompt script1920 1725 A. Pope Wks. Shakespear I. Pref. 17 It appears that this edition, as well as the Quarto's, was printed (at least partly) from no better copies than the Prompter's Book, or Piece-meal Parts written out for the use of the actors. 1815 Old Eng. Plays IV. 223 They who republish such dramas as have hitherto only been printed from..the prompter's books are entitled to much indulgence. 1997 Cambr. Opera Jrnl. 9 205 M.H. 10691 seems to be a prompter's book, with..a few instrumental incipits..supplied in red crayon. prompter's box n. a box on a stage, typically in the centre in front of the footlights, where the prompter sits. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > prompter's box prompter's box1775 prompt box1859 1775 F. Abington Let. in Private Corr. D. Garrick (1832) II. 32 Begging leave to sit in the prompter's box. 1841 Times 25 Oct. 7/4 A basket of raw meat is placed in the middle of the stage, within a yard or two of the prompter's box. 1926 S. M. Waxman Antoine & Théâtre-Libre iv. 68 [He] lost his nerve on seeing the prompter's box empty, stumbled through the first few lines, and withdrew. 1988 Eighteenth-Cent. Stud. 22 169 She faked a few strums on the instrument while a guitarist hidden in the prompter's box provided the sounds. prompter's copy n. = prompt book n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > prompter's copy prompter's book1725 prompter's copy1746 prompt book1768 prompt copy1792 prompt script1920 1746 J. Upton Crit. Observ. Shakespeare ii. xiv. 262 This being written in the prompter's copy, by way of direction to the players, the unattending printer mixed them with the poet's own words. 1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 15 July 5/6 (advt.) Only the Books [of the opera] that are sold inside the gates do correspond with the stage representation. They..have been printed from the Prompter's copy. 1926 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 41 663 An author's original MS might be sent to the Censor for endorsement and then serve as the original prompter's copy. 1988 Mod. Philol. 85 418 Editions published after the author's death, sometimes allegedly corrected from the prompter's copy. prompter's table n. the table at which the prompter sits. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > prompting equipment prompter's bell1779 prompt bell1784 prompter's table1834 prompt table1844 1834 W. C. Macready Diary 10 June (1912) I. 152 I came up and was first at rehearsal; from the prompter's table I wrote a hasty note to R. Price. 1889 J. L. Toole Reminisc. I. i. 29 I was sitting at the prompter's table, when I heard a voice at my elbow. 1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June n9 According to the legend,..the actor's ghost..makes himself visible near the prompter's table whenever a new show is being readied. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440
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