| 释义 |
fautor|ˈfɔːtə(r)|
Forms: 4–7 fautour(e, (6 fauctour), 5–6 fawter, -or, -our, 6–7 fauter, 4, 6– fautor. Also 6–7 erron. faulter, -or, -our.
[ad. F. fauteur, ad. L. fautor, f. favēre to favour.]
One who favours; a favourer.
1. An adherent, partisan, supporter, abettor.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 209 Him and his fautours he cursed euerilkon. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 443 But Symon and Iohn, with here fautoures, stopped þe wayes al aboute. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 8356 With þair fautours all in fere. 1527in Fiddes Wolsey ii. (1726) 141, I shall..never more..hide..such heresies..nor their auctors or fawtors. 1559Mirr. Mag., Worcester xx, For princes faultes his faultors all men teare. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 693 This matter was with great heat debated..either part having great faultours. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. v. i. 312 Cartes..hath been thought by some to have been a Fautor of Atheism. 1786H. Tooke Purley (1798) I. 398 His lordship and his fautors will do well to contend stoutly..for their doctrine of language. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. vi. 289 [Hobbes] is not of the apologists and fautors of tyranny. 1890E. Johnson Rise Christendom 472 Montalembert, the great fautor and defender of the monks.
†2. A protector, patron. Obs.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. 304 The archbishop.. cursed him for contumacie, and great fautoure of heretikes. 1548W. Patten Expedition Scot. Ded. in Arb. Garner III. 52 His most benign fautor and patron. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 346 Humphrey, Duke of Glocester, a noble fautor of good letters. c1611Chapman Iliad i. 441 O thou that all things seest, Fautor of Chrysce. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. xii. 321 He [a star] is the Fautor of Serenity. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon I. 24 By the favour of his Patron, and fautor of his Studies..he was..made Scholar or Pastor. |
单词 favourless 释义 † favourless, a. ? Obs.[f. favour n. + -less.]Without favour. a. Not......