单词 | sword-player |
释义 | sword-playern. Now rare or Obsolete. One skilled in sword-play; chiefly, a gladiator; also, a fencer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > fencer swordmana1387 buckler-player1448 sword-player1538 escrimer1572 fencer1581 offender1599 warder1599 scrimer1604 swordsmana1680 parrier1809 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > gladiatorial combat > [noun] > gladiator swordmana1387 sword-player1538 gladiator1541 fence-man1558 fencer1587 sworder1594 Samnite1600 sword-fencer1600 mirmilloner1623 mirmillo1638 mirmillon1656 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?’ DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] > showing skill or spirit sword-playing14.. gladiatory1653 parrya1734 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). < n.14.. |
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