单词 | quiverer |
释义 | > as lemmasˈquiverer ˈquiverer n. ΚΠ 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xvii. 76 Wrastling..is daungerous to be delt with in agues, as to vehement and conspiring with the quiuerer. 1866 Harper's Mag. May 714 A half-caste called by the Portuguese Mariano, by the Africans Matakenya, ‘The Quiverer’—that is..one who in wrath quivers, as a tree does in a storm. 1980 Eighteenth-Cent. Stud. 14 23 The alchemy of civilisation had..dispelled the ignorant fear of the savages by..turning the quiverer into a calculating Hobbesian. < as lemmas |
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