| 单词 |
assertor |
| 释义 |
assertor|əˈsɜːtɔː(r), -ə(r)|
[a. L. assertor, n. of agent f. asserĕre: see assert v. and -or. Cf. also asserter.]
†1. (In L. senses)
a. One who liberates a slave.
b. One who lays claim to a slave. Obs.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 22 That Claudius the assertor..shoulde haue the keping and placing the mayde. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. ii. §32. 482 Called σωτὴρ and Ἐλευθέριος, Saviour and Assertour.
2. One who maintains or defends; a champion, vindicator, advocate.
1647J. Hare St. Edw. Ghost in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII, The Greeks and Gauls were..famous Assertors of their Liberties. 1872Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xvii. 96 Archbishop John was a rigid Assertor of ecclesiastical discipline.
3. One who makes a positive statement.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 206 Wherein indeed Aristotle playes the Aristotle, that is, the wary and evading assertor. 1797Encycl. Brit. (Astronomy) II. 493/1 The imputation must return upon the assertor. 1853De Morgan in Bowen Logic ix. (1870) 286 Which the assertor is afterwards at liberty to deny. |
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