单词 | accuser |
释义 | accusern. A person who accuses, blames, or criticizes. Also: spec. a plaintiff, a prosecutor. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > one who accuses accusorc1350 accusatora1382 accusera1382 pealerc1400 accusant?a1425 witerc1449 imposant1502 charger1512 suggester1530 condemner?1541 cuser1589 suggestora1601 taxer1601 arraigner1854 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms lxxi. 4 He shal meke the false acusere [a1425 L.V. chalengere]. ?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 111 (MED) Þei wole be iugis wiþouten autorite &..false accusars. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 34 (MED) He was accept accuser of my name. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. xi. 262 What shuld be doon of the accusar. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Esdras xvi. 65 Youre owne synnes shalbe youre accusers in that daye. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 17 And frowning brow to brow our selues will heare, The accuser and the accused. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iv. v. 166 Take that of me my Friend, who haue the power to seale th'accusers lips. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 10 Satan, now first inflam'd with rage, came down, The Tempter ere th' Accuser of man-kind. View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 4 Whatever Persons the Civil-Law forbids to be accusers, the Canon-Law does the self-same. 1798 J. Carr tr. Lucian Dialogues IV. 224 I think your censure may be spared till you can get a recruit of reason; unless you are resolved to be my accuser right or wrong. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xii. 129 A penalty is denounced against..the accuser for his unsustained prosecution. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 499 Godwine's accuser was an Englishman of the highest rank. 1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Sept. 12/4 Marshall Hall's accusers are ‘fit to be tied’ when asked for proofs..of their bugbear's alleged devilishness. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 169 They counter-accuse their accusers of being ‘holier than thou’, of smugness, of ‘hypocrisy’. 2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) viii. 176 The acquittal rate in rape cases is so high because in such circumstances the accuser has to be very compelling as a witness. Compounds accuser-general n. a chief prosecutor or accuser; sometimes humorous. ΚΠ 1770 Crit. Rev. Jan. 59 This charge is supported with some humour from the words of the petitions, till the court calls for Mr. Accuser-general, who is council for the plaintiffs, for his records. 1828 E. Irving Last Days 209 There is no accuser-general in any Christian state, nor in any Christian church. 1911 E. A. W. Budge Osiris & Egyptian Resurrection II. 305 Momus, the ‘Accuser General’, complained that many persons, in spite of their mixed origin, had been admitted to the feasts and councils of the gods. Derivatives aˈccuser-like adv. rare ΚΠ 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 88 Whosoeuer knoweth the thyng it selfe will confesse that there is nothyng spoken accuserlike. 1850 W. A. M. McDevitte tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1890) IV. xl. xiii. 1867 Then how, accuser-like, has he blended that which was the crime of this night with other invectives against my conduct. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1382 |
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