单词 | purposer |
释义 | purposern. 1. A person who has a purpose; esp. a person who intends or plans a particular thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > one who intends or purposes purposerc1475 intendera1535 aimer1588 pretender1591 pretendant1598 c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 59 (MED) Whanne euer a difficultee risiþ..to þe purposer forto worche eny vertuose dede, he may wel ynouȝe do his purpos..bi vertu of douȝtines. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. f. 3b He accused also to haue bene the chief conspirater, and purposer of his death. 1670 W. Smith Spiritual Prospective Glass 17 It was a noble spirit in Gamalliel that moved him to stand up in the Councell when they were purposing to slay the Apostles, and there to give his advice to stop the fury of the purposers. 1731 A. Hill Athelwold iv. 47 So kind a Purposer, as Athelwold, Means much, he leaves imperfect. 1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 23 The bloody Purposer of determined Vengeance. 1841 T. Arnold Lect. Mod. Hist. (1842) Inaug. 5 Perhaps I ought not to press the word ‘purpose’; because purpose implies consciousness in the purposer. 1884 American 8 344 The persistent determination of its purposers. 1937 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 10 522 The artisan has ceased to be the purposer and planner of his work. 1984 Polit. Theory 12 171 Hacking praises Foucault for having stepped beyond the old conception of subjectivity, which required all purposefulness in history to have a purposer. 2006 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 25 Feb. b21 This way urges us to consider the purposefulness of life, then to rationally..conclude that such purpose implies a purposer, a designer, a telos. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > one who puts forward purposer1481 propounder1561 proponerc1580 proposer1585 proponent1588 mover1604 Marxoid1987 1481 W. Caxton in tr. Cicero De Senectute (Caxton) Table of Contents sig. a1v How Caton was lerned in the lawe, a pledar & a purposer in the courtys. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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