| 单词 |
introductor |
| 释义 |
introˈductor arch.
[a. late L. intrōductor, agent-n. from intrōdūcĕre to introduce: cf. F. introducteur (16th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
One who or that which introduces; an introducer.
1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II.) 221, I should not be his worst introductor. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 3/1 Institutor of the Magi, and Introductor of the Chaldaick Sciences amongst the Persians. 1751Phil. Trans. XLVII. 300, Fig. 2. The same canula improved..which I name introductor. 1852Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales, Wayside (1879) 10 Not..that there was any real necessity for my services as introductor.
b. One whose office it is to introduce persons at court; esp. introductor of ambassadors (F. introducteur des ambassadeurs): see quot. 1706.
1651Evelyn Diary 15 Sept., We were accompanied both going and returning by y⊇ Introductor of Ambassadors and Ayd of Ceremonies. 1662J. Davies Olearius' Voy. Ambass. v. 271 Jesaul Senhobet, who is as it were the Introductor, or Master of the Ceremonies. 1706Phillips s.v., An Introductor of Ambassadors,..a Master of Ceremonies, that brings them to Audience in a Prince's Court. 1774H. Swinburne in Crts. Europe Close last Cent. (1841) I. 9 About eleven, the introductors gave notice of the king's levee being ready, and so..we trudged up stairs. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. liii. (1846) V. 246 The introductor and interpreter of foreign ambassadors were the great Chiaous and the Dragoman. 1834Beckford Italy II. 344 You must come with me immediately to the Infanta and Don Gabriel..I am to be your introductor. |
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