单词 | redresser |
释义 | redressern. 1. A person who redresses or rectifies something, esp. a wrong. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > one who or that which corrector1377 mendera1382 physiciana1398 amenderc1405 redresserc1449 corrigiour1474 repairer?1504 redressc1530 remeder1535 righter1566 rectifier1607 redressor1643 corrective1768 renovator1827 readjuster1850 Mr Fixit1924 fixer-upper1932 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 381 (MED) Noman ouȝte be iuge in his owne cause..neither eny man ouȝte be redresser of the wrong which his neiȝbour dooth to him. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 154 (MED) Of redressere [Fr. adreceur] ne of vndertakere thei taken no keep. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. iii That same moste beste redresser or reformer is God, whose hande gouerneth..all thynges. 1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. vi. 742 For feare lest they feele him once a redresser, and reuenger of his owne cause. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 i. iv. xxv The famous Don Quixote of the Mancha, the righter of wrongs, the redresser of injuries. 1645 W. Gouge Progresse Divine Providence 40 There were worthy restorers and reformers of Religion, builders up of the house of God, and redressers of grievances in State. 1759 R. Spearman Lett. to Friend ii. 90 He was a general redresser of grievances, and suppressor of robbers, tyrants, and oppressors. 1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 27 The fighter of the duel no longer pretends to be a glorious redresser of the wrongs of strangers. 1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. xvii. 298 The redressers of the poor man's wrongs. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iv. iii. 332 I, also, in my time, must meet the sure Redresser. 1937 C. Caudwell Illusion & Reality iv. 89 He realises himself as playing a social rôle: inspirer of humanity or redresser of the follies of mankind. 1993 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 8 Oct. 1 a The novelist Toni Morrison..disavows the title as a redresser of wrongs. 2. Surgery. Originally: any of various instruments used to restore the uterus to a normal position. Later also: any of various instruments used to hold tissue in position or extract foreign bodies. Now rare. ΚΠ 1854 Western Lancet 15 415 With M. Velpeau, I believe that as soon as the redresser is withdrawn, the uterus will take its vicious position again. 1869 G. H. Humphreys & C. E. Hackley tr. F. von Niemeyer Text-bk. Pract. Med. II. v. 134 ‘Flexion instruments’, sounds, redressers, and intra-uterine pessaries, which were for a time much used for flexions, do actually no good, but much harm. 1938 Lancet 17 Sept. 676/1 He used a redresser to apply lateral pressure. 1941 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 51 709 With the redresser in place the wire is again tightened to take up the slack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1449 |
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