单词 | water-drinker |
释义 | water-drinkern. 1. a. A person who drinks water, esp. in preference to wine or other alcoholic drinks; (sometimes) spec. a teetotaller. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer water-drinker1440 abstainerc1475 Rechabite1637 drink-watera1641 hydropotist1678 hydropot1727 teetotal1834 teetotaller1834 teetotalist1840 Washingtonian1842 Good Templar1853 teetotalleress1854 blue-ribbonist1858 nephalist1861 total abstainer1862 blue-ribbonite1867 totec1870 Templar1874 blue ribboner1878 total abstinent1882 water butt1882 white ribboner1886 non-drinker1910 pioneer1912 T.T.1922 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 518 Water drynkare, aquebibus. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiiiv A falser water drynker there lyueth not. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. iv. sig. Cv What? the well-dieted Amorphus become a Water-drinker ? View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Whitaker Tree Humane Life 31 When as water or small-beere-drinkers looke like Apes rather then men. 1683 N. Grew New Exper. 9 Alkaline Salt, in the opinion of some Water-Drinkers, gives a kind of Sweetness or Savouriness to Water, as Salt to their Pottage. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. v. 12 A water-drinker, provided he is a profess'd one, and does it without fraud or covin, is precisely in the same predicament. 1815 W. Wordsworth Poems I. Pref. p. xxxviii Though myself a water-drinker, I cannot resist the pleasure of transcribing what follows. 1882 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs i. 7 A water-drinker in India is always a phenomenon. 1914 H. Coomber Lessons & Exper. on Sci. Hygiene & Temperance xiii. 51 On the average each water drinker made 795,400 bricks a year, each beer drinker made 760,269 bricks a year. 1992 Greece & Rome 39 209 Peter the Pionite..passed for a waterdrinker, but when in his old age some monks tried to give him wine mixed with water, he said: ‘that stuff tastes as bad as spiced wine.’ ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > user of water in water-drinker1562 waterman1577 1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 59, in Apol. Priuate Masse Cyprian wrate against those that were called Aquarij, waterdrinkers. 1648 J. Taylor Brown Dozen of Drunkards 16 He hates the Heresie of the Aquarii, or water-drinkers. 1718 I. Sharpe Hist. Acct. Rise & Growth Heresie i. 24 He [sc. Tatian] founded a new Heresie..using only water in the Sacred Mysteries. From whence his Followers were stiled..Hydra-Parastatæ, Water-drinkers. 1766 tr. J.-H.-S. Formey Eccl. Hist. I. ii. 47 They were also called Hydro-parastates or Aquarii, water drinkers, from their custom of using water instead of wine at the Lord's Supper. 1845 R. Eden Churchman's Theol. Dict. (rev. ed.) 37 Aquarians, water-drinkers. A sect of Christians who carried their notions of temperance so far as to substitute water in the holy communion for wine. 1889 Cent. Dict. I. 284/1 Hydroparastatæ, or Water-drinkers.., who used water in place of wine at the eucharist. 2. A person who drinks the waters at a spa or spring. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] > at a spa water-drinker1677 1677 Poor Robin's Visions v. 65 Here were a number of Water-drinkers as of Epsom, Tunbridge, Dullidge, &c. who drink it not for any great Vertue they found in it, but they loved the places. 1707 J. Browne (title) An Account of the Wonderful Cures Perform'd by the Cold Baths. With Advice to the Water Drinkers at Tunbridge, Hampstead,..and all the other Chalibeate Spaws. 1786 Post-chaise Compan. 98 At Lucan..is a noted medicinal spring. The well is sheltered in a deep niche, neatly executed in hewn stone. There is a rural thatched seat for the water-drinkers. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxv. 383 A golden inscription [in the pump-room], to which all the water-drinkers should attend. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback x. 188 It was great fun to see the troop of water-drinkers in the early morning marching up and down..each with an empty wine-glass in hand, which from time to time they got replenished, according to the dose of mineral water prescribed for them. 1914 Illustr. London News 14 Feb. 264/2 The water-drinker can imbibe his matutinal draught looking out over the azure sea. 2008 Studia Hibernica 35 112 Bath was, by some margin, the most popular destination for Irish water drinkers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1440 |
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