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Definition of Subduer
1. Noun. Someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion.
Generic synonyms: Controller, Restrainer
Derivative terms: Overcome, Subdue, Subdue
Definition of Subduer
1. n. One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror.
Definition of Subduer
1. Noun. One who, or that which, subdues. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subduer
1. one that subdues [n -S] - See also: subdues
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subduer
Literary usage of Subduer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"A tamer, a subduer ; danter of hört, one who breaks horses. Doug. Virgil, 211.
38. .... subduer ..."
2. The Worship of the Dead: Or, The Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its by John Garnier (1904)
"... but under a name or names expressive of some divine attribute, that is to say,
not as being himself the mighty hunter, or the subduer of the leopard for ..."
3. Essay Towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English. by Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Saṅs-rgyas-phun-tshogs (1834)
"... a conqueror, subduer of his enemy. )'?, a halbert, a pole-axe. sjx, va to
scatter, spread, &c. ; v. , va to kill, murder, destroy; v. , va to unfold, ..."
4. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1904)
"... subduer of the two lands, great one, smiter of the Asiatics. ... smiter of^the
Menth, subduer of the Libyans, subduer of the Pati, conqueror of the Anti ..."
5. Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries: In by Thomas Henry Taunton (1888)
"subduer took the lead, at a moderate pace, the others lying off. ... subduer was
beaten off.* * The betting for the deciding heat was 5 to 4 against Naworth ..."
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