| 单词 |
Septembrizer |
| 释义 |
Septembrizer|ˈsɛptɛmbraɪzə(r)|
Also -ber-.
[ad. F. septembriseur, f. septembriser (see prec.).]
1. Fr. Hist. One who took part in or advocated the massacre of the political prisoners in Paris on September 2nd–5th, 1792. Also transf., a bloodthirsty revolutionary.
1794tr. Brissot's Addr. to Constituents 13 You will then see the Convention..confer the most honourable..missions upon these atrocious Septembrizers. 1820Scraps for Curious 26, I saw at Meux a famous Septembrizer chop off the head of the curate of St. Nicholas. [1866Spectator 1 Dec. 1329 The wild thirst for blood which..turns decent, quiet citizens..into men like the Septembriseurs.]
2. = Septembrist a.
1840New Monthly Mag. LIX. 437 The revolutionary Septembrisers of the [Portuguese] ministry.
3. One who shoots partridges (in September): with allusion to sense 1.
1824Byron Juan xvi. lxxx, Some deadly shots too, Septembrizers, seen Earliest to rise, and last to quit the search Of the poor partridge. 1834L. Hunt's London Jrnl. No. 22. 171/2, I recollected the month, and thought how well its name was adapted to these Septembrizers of the birds. |
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