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单词 sword-player
释义

sword-playern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsword-ˌplayer.
Now rare or Obsolete. One skilled in sword-play; chiefly, a gladiator; also, a fencer.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > fencer
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buckler-player1448
sword-player1538
escrimer1572
fencer1581
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warder1599
scrimer1604
swordsmana1680
parrier1809
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > gladiatorial combat > [noun] > gladiator
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14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 696/37 Hic gladiator, a swerd~plaer.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Bustuarij, sworde players, whiche went before the ded corpsis whan they were borne to be burned.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. iii. f. 62 Settinge them in order of battell after his swoordeplayers fasshion.
1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xlii. 27/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The plaie or game of swordplaiers or maisters of defense.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 640 A Romane Emperour is said to haue seene in his smaragd the sword players as they did fight.
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. iv. 316 Some they set to fight with beasts, some to fight one with another. These they called Gladiatores, swordplayers, & this spectacle, munus gladiatorium, a sword-fight.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1323 Have they not Sword-players, and ev'ry sort Of Gymnic Artists..? View more context for this quotation
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iii. 53 In a Prize of Sword-Players, when one of the Fencers had the other at his Mercy, the Vanquish'd Party implor'd the Clemency of the Spectators.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. xii. 301 ‘Nay!’ said the Countess..‘Would you hold me out as a prize to the best sword-player?’

Derivatives

sword-playing n. Obsolete = sword-play n. 1b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] > showing skill or spirit
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gladiatory1653
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sword-play1847
fence-play1878
swordsmanship1886
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 586/35 Gladiatura, a swerdpleyynge, or bokeler pleyynge.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xx. 360 Justs,..Swordplayings, Wrestlings, Buffetings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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