单词 | unraveller |
释义 | unravellerunravelern. A person who or thing which unravels something. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains expositora1340 expounitourc1380 undoer1382 expoundera1425 reader1440 declarera1527 looser1528 explainer1579 exponer1588 illustrator1598 clearer1599 explicator1611 unfolder1611 representer1642 dilucidator1689 unravellera1704 elucidator1715 exponent1812 explanator1858 transfuser1889 a1704 T. Brown Pocket-bk. Common Places in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) ii. 131 Mythologists are indeed..mighty Unravellers of the Fables of the old Ethnicks. 1764 P. Hiffernan Earl of Warwick i. i. 3 Time.., th' unraveller of all The great events which actuate this world. 1814 M. R. Mitford Let. 22 Apr. in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vi. 189 An unraveller of state cyphers. 1889 Athenæum 20 Apr. 502/1 The ‘improved’ telephone is..dragged in to serve the purposes of fiction as an unraveller of crime. 1920 R. W. Child Vanishing Men 194 I'm no unraveler of tangled skeins. 1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. iv. 157 Another machine was yet to be uncrated..known in the profession as a portable unraveller. 2011 B. McCrea In Company of Strangers i. i. 49 He is the agent of natural law and legitimate bonds, the opponent and unraveler of illegitimate connections. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1704 |
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