单词 | reflecter |
释义 | reflectern. I. A person who reflects. 1. A person who thinks deeply or carefully about something; = reflector n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] > one who ponders ponderer?1526 considerera1568 contemplator1597 deliberator1598 surveyor1606 chewer1612 head-scratcher1618 considerator1658 reflecter1665 reflector1665 deliberant1672 preoccupier1746 ruminator1758 phrontist1822 incubator1851 1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 5 Seeing the rudest are very shallow Reflecters and Discoursers, and suppos'd to be utterly unacquainted with any kind of Skill got by Speculation or Study, the Knowledge of the Rule of Faith's Existence must not need any skill or Science acquir'd by Study. 1673 J. Sergeant Errour Non-plust 135 Great Witts and acute Reflecters whose piercing understandings require Convictive Grounds for their Faith, would remain for ever unsatisfy'd. 1810 Edinb. Rev. 10 136 The tyrannical domination of papal Rome, forms..one of the most interesting and curious phenomena which the philosophical reflecter upon past times can contemplate. 1895 Bookman 8 27/1 Mrs. Oliphant would be the last person to claim to be an original researcher or even a profound reflecter on historical things. 1973 Jrnl. Value Enquiry 7 146 Hartman makes a quasi-metaphysical application of the theory of types, arguing in the logical proof that the reflecter on infinite self-reflections cannot belong to this infinite set and must thus belong to a higher order of infinity. 1991 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 23 June g3 His people are usually thinkers, reflecters, intelligent paranoiacs and obsessive worriers. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > critic assailant1565 animadvertiser1596 critic1598 critist1602 animadversor1618 animadverter1642 reflector1681 reflecter1686 criticizer1710 dictioneer1848 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] > one who slanders missayer1340 slandererc1340 jurorc1380 third tonguea1382 defamerc1425 malignerc1425 disclanderer1447 praterc1500 evil-sayer1530 ill sayera1533 infamera1533 belier1541 sycophant1548 calumniatorc1550 disgracer1570 infamator1571 depraver1584 calumnier1586 libeller1589 infamizer1593 maldisant1598 oblocutor1603 traducer1603 villainizer1605 vilifier1611 calumner1614 scandallerc1620 scandalizer1632 blackmouth1642 deflowerer1645 famer1646 defamator1658 reflector1681 reflecter1686 asperser1702 bedirtera1742 libellist1794 mud-flinger1839 denigrator1875 mud-slinger1876 tar-brusher1884 libellant- 1686 W. Sherlock Papist not Misrepresented 2 The Reflecter craftily insinuates that we grant all his Misrepresentations..to be ignorant, childish, or wilful Mistakes. 1710 J. Swift Tale of Tub (ed. 5) Apol. sig. A7v For the greater Part the Reflecter is entirely mistaken. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 190 The Tribes of Answerers, Considerers, Observers, Reflecters. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xlii. 292 I was a reflecter again!.. Such venom in words! II. Something that reflects. 3. An object or surface which reflects light, an image, etc.; = reflector n. 4, 6. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > objects or substances that reflect light reflectent1658 reflexive1686 reflecter1713 reflector1749 reflectant1963 1713 E. Wells Young Gentleman's Mechanicks ii. iii. 109 Hence C will be..reflected by a spherical convex reflecter. 1769 Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 200 A serjeant in the marines..has..a Newtonian reflecter of 3 palms. 1843 Ladies' Repository Feb. 43/1 Tears, the bright reflecters of the tenderness within. 1926 M. M. Willey Country Newspaper ix. 113 As a reflecter of community life, or builder of social solidarity, it is unimportant. 2005 Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg, Mass.) (Nexis) 13 Nov. The cost of adding more signs or reflecters on Arbor Street's curves would also be prohibitive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > that is fitted with a reflector reverberatory1716 reverberator1775 reflecter1782 1782 Gentleman's Mag. 52 588 The miserable lanthorns and candles..have given place..to 1200 reverberes (or reflecters) made of polished tin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1665 |
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