单词 | tregetour |
释义 | tregetourn. archaic. One who works magic or plays tricks by sleight of hand; a conjurer; a juggler; hence, a trickster, a deceiver. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer jugglera1100 tregetour1340 hey-passa1593 prestigiator1595 baffler1606 feat-worker1617 hocus-pocus1624 hocus1647 chirosophist1652 fascinator1677 legerdemain1696 prestidigitator1712 conjurer1727 sleight-of-hand man1757 nimble-fingers1781 sleight-of-hand professor1801 legerdemainist1830 magician1834 illusionist1850 jongleura1851 wizard1859 deceptionist1883 mentalist1906 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4213 Als negremanciens and tregettours, Wiches and false enchauntours. c1380 Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 128 Wiþ tregetours & tomblers, wiþ gestours & japeres. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12247 A tregetur [Gött. trigettur, Fairf. tregitour, Trin. Cambr. tregettour] i hope he be, Or elles godds self es he. ?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aijv For trygetours and tryflours that tauernes haunte. 1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede 65 b These persons do make Christe a iuglere or a trogeter and a wonderfull deceiuer. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. v. 223 A dauncing Tregetour..was acting and counterfeiting certaine gestures that were commonly and usually taken up. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xii. 312 The sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour's mummery. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. ii. 28 The more sombre Tregetour..promised to cut off and refix the head of a sad-faced little boy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1340 |
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