| 单词 |
confounder |
| 释义 |
confounder|kənˈfaʊndə(r)|
[f. confound + -er1: prob. going back to an AF. confondour = OF. confondeur.]
One who confounds: a. One who ruins, destroys, overthrows, spoils, discomfits, etc.
1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 45 Thou seist we ben confounders of prelates and of lordes. 1515Barclay Egloges i. (1570) A vj/2 Of Saint Peters, or Christes patrimony, Nowe fewe be founders, but confounders many. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry iv. i, N. Tell you? Why, sir, are you my confessor? R. I will be your confounder, if you do not. [Draws a dagger.] 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 18 What a confounder of heresies. 1847De Quincey Secr. Societies Wks. VI. 247 To strive after a conquest over Time the conqueror, to confound the grim confounder.
b. One who causes confusion or disorder, who confuses distinctions, etc.
1739R. Bull tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 125 Not Founder, yet Confounder of the Feast. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 73 This confounder of words was himself confounded by twelve answers by non-jurors. |
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