单词 | withholder |
释义 | withholdern. One who withholds. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > [noun] > keeping what is due to or desired by another > one who denierc1475 withholder1483 1483 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. Introd. p. cvii That scho haue hir accioun agane the withaldaris of thame. 1516 Reg. Privy Seal Scotl. I. 418/1 To compell the withhaldaris and intromettouris thairwith to deliuer the samyn to thaim. 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 13 §13 Yt shall not be laufull..to..sue suche witholder of tithes..before any other Judge then ecclesiasticall. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 127 If either Prince have an intention to recover any other Rights, against other with-holders. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 555 He hath more Withholders to keep him from Sin. 1866 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus xxii. 28 Whether he [sc. God] be regarded as the withholder of prosperity or the restrainer of crime. 1917 Outhwaite Land or Revol. iii. 21 To compel the urban land withholders to use or part with the land. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1483 |
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