| 单词 |
diter |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † ˈditer Obs.
Also 4–5 -our, 5 -ar.
[ME. (and AF.) ditour = OF. diteor, ditor, ditur author, composer, public crier, etc.:—L. dictātōr-em (see dictator), agent-n. f. dictāre: see dite v. But in sense 1, perh. a direct deriv. of the vb.]
1. One who indites; author, writer, composer.
1388Wyclif Esther viii. 9 The dyteris and writeris of the kyng weren clepid. 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xxiii. 1 A pleasaunt dyter of songes of Israel. 1585Animadv. Kirk in J. Melvill Diary (1842) 234 For the Saxt Act, the dytter thairof apeires to be verie cairfull.
2. An orator, rhetorician.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 373 Advoketes and ditoures [oratores]. Ibid. III. 163 Of þis happe spekeþ a dytour [Caxt. or ret[or]ycyon, orig. exclamator quidam.]
3. A summoner, indicter.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 338 What shal we sey of þys dytours..þat for hate a trewman wyl endyte. c1400–20Judicium (1822) 6 Of backbytars and fals quest dytars.
▪ II. diter
obs. form of dighter. |
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