单词 | putter to death |
释义 | > as lemmasputter to death 2. A person who or thing which puts (in various senses); a person who raises a question, problem, etc. Also with prepositional phrase as complement, as putter to death, putter to flight, etc.: see also Compounds 1, Compounds 2.Recorded earliest in putter-out n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > hypothesis > [noun] > one who forms a hypothesis put-case1590 hypothesist1788 putter1823 hypothesizer1833 hypothetist1852 hypothetizer1891 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 3744 Skilful is iacob his nome, þat is to say in riȝt langage, Putter out [a1400 Vesp. Supplanter] of heritage. a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Titus ii. 3 (MED) Þe oolde wymmen, conseyle þou to be in holy habite, not puttars of blame to ooþere [L. non criminatrices]. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 83 Hale,..puttar to flicht Of fendis in battale. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 592 The putters of Iesus and of his disciples to death. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iii. 160 Euery man was a commaunder, and no man a putter in execution. 1628 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1900) 2nd Ser. II. 438 Aganis the putters or layers of greene lint in loches or running waters. 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. 11 Thou art as troublesom to me, as..a young putter of Cases to his Mistress and Sempstress, who has Love in her head for another. 1763 H. S. J. Giral del Pino Dict. Eng. & Spanish II. at Flight A putter to flight, desbarátadór. 1823 C. Lamb Mackery End in Elia 175 The putter of the said question. 1847 L. Hunt Lying in Men, Women, & Bks. (1876) 133 O love of truth!..putter of security into the heart. 1987 Melody Maker 8 Aug. 8/2 For being a lying, disgusting pig dog putter of people into jail in the 1950s because of their membership of the Communist Party. < as lemmas |
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