单词 | proscriber |
释义 | proscribern. A person who proscribes someone or something. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [noun] > one who proscribes proscriber1660 1660 W. Prynne 1st & 2nd Part Signal Loyalty Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Unjust disinheriters and proscribers of your Sacred Majestie out of all your own Hereditary Kingdoms. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. e2v The Triumvir and Proscriber had descended to us in a more hideous form than they now appear. 1737 tr. F. Catrou Roman Hist. VI. 438/1 Cinna causes him to be recalled, from the Place where he lay hid, to avoid the Fury of his Proscribers. 1785 J. Gardiner Oration 30 Your names shall shine resplendent as the planets, while every generous mind will shrink abhorrent from the spiteful, impotent proscriber. 1804 Times 28 Dec. 3/1 The most infuriated Jacobins, the most ferocious and blood-thirsty proscribers and murderers. 1835 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 240 The countenance expresses amiable feeling, rather than dignity; there is nothing in it which indicates the proscriber of Cicero or the conqueror of Marc Antony. 1869 Daily News 17 July Where frequent revolutions have divided parties into proscribers and proscribed. 1937 M. Beerbohm Let. Aug. (1988) 187 Alan was..unhampered by canons; no proscriber. 1965 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 109 365 He is..more the constitutional magistrate like Cicero than the lean conqueror and proscriber like Julius Caesar. 2001 D. Crystal Lang. & Internet iii. 80 The only result of using proscriptions of this kind is to distance the proscriber from the facts of online usage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1660 |
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