Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who delays or lingers: as, Fabius Cunctator (the delayer).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who delays or lingers.
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- noun One who
delays orlingers .
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- noun someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)
Etymologies
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Latin, literally "delayer"; applied as a surname to Quintus Fabius Maximus.
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Examples
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It is cunctate, more familiar in its noun form cunctator.
Word Fugitives 2008
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It is cunctate, more familiar in its noun form cunctator.
Word Fugitives 2008
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To attack Vowell for the people she cites in the acknowledgments section rather than specific examples from the text is the act of an amateurish cunctator.
Virginia Heffernan: The Sarah Palin of Journalism : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2008
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The foregoing is irrefutable evidence that the fool-killer is enacting the rôle of cunctator.
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But no one was ever more undecided than the famous cunctator.
The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
sionnach commented on the word cunctator
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; “Cunctator�? 275–203 b.c., Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
February 20, 2007
milosrdenstvi commented on the word cunctator
Thrilling synonym for procrastinator. I love it.
March 21, 2009
bilby commented on the word cunctator
Cunctators gonna cunctate.
May 11, 2016