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单词 wielder
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wieldern.

Brit. /ˈwiːldə/, U.S. /ˈwildər/
Forms: see wield v. and -er suffix1; also 1700s welder (Irish English, in sense 4).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wield v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < wield v. + -er suffix1. Compare Middle Low German welder , Old High German waltāri (rare; Old High German waltære , waltere , German Walter , now archaic), and also Middle Dutch geweldere , all in the sense ‘ruler, person in charge’. With sense 1 compare earlier waldend n.
1. A ruler, a lord, a master. Cf. waldend n. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun]
waldendeOE
prince?c1225
ordainerc1300
tyranta1340
prefecta1382
rulera1382
wieldera1382
corner of the people1382
lordshipperc1384
governora1393
moderatora1398
wieldinga1400
leader of lawsc1400
regent1415
governailc1440
dominatorc1450
reignera1464
regnanta1500
gubernator1522
despot1562
shepherd1577
swayer1598
Sophy1599
most mastera1616
Govr.1620
Gov.1630
archon1735
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. i. 3 The oxe kneȝ his weldere [L. possessorem], and the asse [the] cracche of his lord.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 129 Þe welder of wyt þat wot alle þynges.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3166 (MED) Þe wildare [a1500 Trin. Dublin weldar] of grece Is wrawid & wrathfull.
1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) i. met. v. 44 O weldar, apeace the Roring floudes.
1600 N. Breton Melancholike Humours in Wks. (1879) I. 9/1 They, like the wielders of the world, command, and haue their will.
1882 A. C. Swinburne Tristram of Lyonesse 225 But now the princely wielder of his land [sc. Bismarck], For hatred's sake toward freedom, so bows down, No strength is in the foot to spurn.
2. The author or cause of something; a person who brings something about. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > agent or person who causes
causec1374
authora1382
workerc1384
causerc1386
begetterc1390
causac1420
workera1425
upraiserc1440
inspirerc1450
procurer1451
occasioner?c1452
procurator1486
purchaser1548
authorera1556
wielder1570
agent1571
effector1586
effecter1591
authoress1592
effectress1601
effectrix1611
performer1616
inducera1631
causeress1631
causatrix1649
father-in-law1650
pregnatress1651
matter1686
energizer1804
establisher1812
bringer1866
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xvii. 53 The veildars of yis greif.
3.
a. A person who uses or handles a weapon, instrument, tool, etc., skilfully or effectively; (more generally) a person who holds and uses something.Often (esp. in later use) in periphrastic phrases used as an alternative to an agent noun, e.g. wielder of the baton: conductor (of music).Frequently as the second element in compounds. hammer-wielder, weather-wielder, willow-wielder: see the first element.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > one who uses > skillfully
wielder1592
1592 W. Wyrley True Vse Armorie 7 The paternall Ancestors of whom (for ought that can be prooued) were not in any late age welders of Armes.
1773 Prudential Lovers II. xxiii. 42 It was the fate of this wielder of the feathered stiletto, to be universally despised.
1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ix. 303 These are the high aims of fiction in the hands of its master wielders.
1862 R. W. Procter Our Turf, Stage & Ring 81 The rough-hewn wielders of the spade.
1923 Americana Ann. 607/1 He had achieved distinction not only as a wielder of the baton, but also as a violinist and pianist.
2018 Express (Nexis) 8 Nov. 12 When knife-wielders and gangsters are behind bars, the public is safer.
b. A person who holds and exercises power, authority, influence, etc.
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1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 153 He is the free wielder of all the powers of a free..people.
1847 Hogg's Weekly Instructor 28 Aug. 410/2 He is rather the wielder of authority to sanction, than the wielder of influence to produce.
1925 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 19 1 The unrestricted supremacy which was attributed to it [sc. sovereignty] in an age when its wielders everywhere were absolute monarchs.
2016 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 Apr. 40 The vast majority of major companies, nearly all the big donors and wielders of influence and power call the Harbour City home.
4. Chiefly in form welder. In 18th- and early 19th-century Ireland: an occupier of land leased from a tenant or middleman (middleman n. 9). Obsolete.
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society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > manager or administrator
purveyora1387
provisora1393
controller1422
administrator1440
administera1443
administrant1602
admin1629
conductor1634
dispensatora1649
dispenser1654
manager1682
mesnagier1693
prepositor1698
wielder1723
administrador1803
policeman1806
administrative1813
manipulator1823
runner1893
case manager1969
1723 J. Swift Some Arguments against Power of Bishops 15 Such..Tenants, generally speaking, have others under them, and so a third and fourth in Subordination, till it comes to the Welder (as they call him) who sits at a rack Rent.
1796 E. Ledwich Statist. Acct. Parish Aghaboe vi. 54 What between the noted dishonesty of tithe-proctors, and the unceasing wrangling and chicane of welders, I positively and solemnly affirm, we receive little more than half of what we are entitled to.
1836 Wexford Independent 3 Aug. 3/2 Every man..should come forward, and not only pay the independent wielder, but indemnify him against the assaults of the legalized corruptionist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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