单词 | signer |
释义 | signern. 1. a. A person who signs a letter, document, etc.; one who has signed something; a signatory. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > ratification or confirmation > [noun] > putting one's signature to a document > one who subscriver1562 subscriber1574 signer1611 signatary1793 signatory1826 signator1893 society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > [noun] > signer subscriber1574 signer1611 signator1650 indorser1766 signatary1793 signatory1826 signee1866 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Signeur, a signer, subscriber; marker. 1650 J. Reynolds Flower of Fidelitie 79 Without further prolixity of literature-introduction, he directed his sight to the Signers name. 1718 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 404 I am flattered with a hundred signers at Glasgow. 1739 R. Richardson Attorney's Pract. Court King's Bench 13 The Signer of the Writs... His Duty is to sign all signable Writs. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 121 This was laid open in the said petition: the signers of it were, John Harrison [etc.]. 1854 E. G. Holland Mem. J. Badger x. 172 He secured more than a hundred signers to the pledge. 1884 F. F. Miller Harriet Martineau 199 Her name headed the list of signers. 1913 H. James Let. 2 May in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) vi. 252 Signers of the loveliest little Birthday letter. 1977 Washington Post 18 Mar. d18/3 The signers included Billy Graham and leaders of the..Reformed Church in America. 1994 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. a2/2 The signers of the letter also say [etc.]. b. spec. U.S. Usually with capital initial. Any of the signatories to the Declaration of Independence. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > national independence > declaration of independence > signatory of signer1838 1838 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 150 Three of the first judges..were framers. Another, [Samuel] Chase, was a signer. 1865 M. B. Chesnut Diary 29 Mar. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xxxiii. 772 What is the use of being a grandson of a signer if one is not a loyal gentleman? 1913 E. Wharton Custom of Country vii. 90 The high dark dining-room with..dim portraits of ‘Signers’ and their females. 1973 A. Powell Temporary Kings i. 49 He is descended..from what is known as a ‘Signer’, one Button Gwinnett, who set his name to the Declaration of Independence. 2007 R. M. Owens Mr. Jefferson's Hammer ii. 42 It was paramount that this son of a Signer be seen as a gentleman. 2. A person who communicates by gesture, (now) esp. as part of a system of sign language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > sign language > one who uses semiologist1848 manualist1883 signer1893 1620 W. Guild Moses Unvailed Ep. Ded. sig. A.5 They remained in vigour, albeit (like Zacharie before his sonnes birth) they were dumbe and obscure signers. 1869 Amer. Ann. Deaf & Dumb July 171 This boy who was the worst signer we ever saw, was just as remarkable for understanding what was said to him in signs. 1893 World's Congr. Instruct. Deaf 89 These associations produce the best and most graceful signers. 1939 Pop. Mech. Apr. 489/1 To express jealousy, the signer bites his forefinger. 1994 Mod. Maturity July 7/1 Get a skilled signer to interpret his classroom instructions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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