单词 | wanderer |
释义 | wanderern. 1. a. A person or thing that is wandering, or that has long wandered (in various senses of the verb); one that is of roving habit or nature. Also figurative or in figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 515/1 Wanderare, vagus, vaga, vacabundus, profugus. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. iii. sig. Pij Seynge that she [sc. Fortune] is but a wandrer, that strayeth from place to place lyke a vacabunde. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 44 The wrathfull Skies gallow, the very wanderer of the Darke, and makes them keepe their caues. View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbb3v/2 Am I for this forsaken? a new love chosen, And my affections, like my fortunes wanderers? 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 495. ¶8 Besides, the whole People is now a Race of such Merchants as are Wanderers by Profession. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Sigh 20 In distant climes to roam, A wanderer from my native home. 1798 W. Wordsworth Lines Tintern Abbey in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 204 O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the wood. 1841 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. viii. 116 Gipsies and other wanderers pitch their tents around it in the nutting season. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iii. 114 The Catholic Church was in the first instance a wanderer on the earth, and had nothing to attach her to its soil. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 709 He had died as he had lived, an exile and a wanderer. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxx. 263 She don't know what she means. She's an idiot, a wanderer in her mind. 1914 A. S. Woodward Guide Fossil Man Brit. Mus. (1915) 3 Such characteristic wanderers over the plains as horses, cattle, antelopes, deer and lions. b. as tr. Latin planēta or Greek πλανήτης: A wandering star, planet. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy planetc1300 erratic starc1374 erring starc1449 seven starsc1530 straying star1585 wanderer1615 erratical1647 erratic1715 1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar i. i. sig. B Your patron Mercury in his mysterious character, Holds all the markes of th' other wanderers. a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Little Bartas in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 769 The Sun..Him, just betwixt Six Wand'rers hast Thou plaç't, Which prance about Him with vnequall haste. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 117 Even Planets or Wanderers keep course, and station. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 191 The worlds they call wanderers rolling on high, That enlighten the earth and enliven the sky. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 536 And God made the sun and moon and five other wanderers, as they are called. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [noun] > Scottish Presbyterian > one adhering to > following dispossessed minister wanderera1700 a1700 A. Shields Life J. Renwick (1724) 56 So many Forces, Foot, Horse and Dragoons, habitually flashed in Blood, being poured into all the Parts of the Country, where the Wanderers were most numerous. 1728 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden (ed. 3) 120 Foot and Horse of the Enemy being searching for Wanderers, as they were then called. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 124 The Wanderer, to give Burley a title which was often conferred on his sect, began to make his horse ready. 1903 Harbottle Dict. Hist. Allusions 275 Wanderers, the Covenanters who left their homes to follow their dispossessed ministers in 1669 were so called. 2. Zoology. a. Used as translation of various modern Latin terms of classification; a bird of the group Vagatores in Macgillivray's system; one of the wandering spiders (Vacabundæ). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > migratory bird summer bird1575 passenger1579 bird of passage1717 refugee1764 migrant1768 migrater1770 migrator1836 wanderer1837 traveller1874 passage bird1878 passage migrant1932 1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 481 That very important tribe of birds to which the name of Vagatores or Wanderers may be applied. b. A species of dragon fly. ΚΠ 1926 Nat. Hist. Oxf. Distr. 169 The ‘wanderer’, Libellula quadrimaculata Linn., has occurred at Shotover. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1440 |
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