Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spit.
- noun One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A spit; a broach.
- noun One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
spit ; abroach . - noun One who
broaches , opens, or utters; a firstpublisher orpromoter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I guess Turnbull was referring to the Committee for the Abolition of Slavery, consisting of 9 Quakers and 3 Anglicans, including Granville Sharp who described Hume as “the first broacher of that uncharitable doctrine” that “Negroes are an ‘inferior species of man’” for that footnote.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Casse, archbishop of Benevento; and (had it not cramped him a little in his creed) I believe would have given ten of the best acres in the Shandy estate, to have been the broacher of it. —
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Casse, archbishop of Benevento; and (had it not cramped him a little in his creed) I believe would have given ten of the best acres in the Shandy estate, to have been the broacher of it. —
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The Talmudists, being taught by these their fathers, do give out, horribly blaspheming, that Jesus of Nazareth our Lord was a magician, a broacher of strange and wicked worship; and one that did miracles by the power of the devil, to beget his worship the greater belief and honour.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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It is a broacher of more news than hogsheads, and more jests than news, which are sucked up here by some spongy brain, and from thence squeezed into a comedy.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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As in coffee-houses, gossip was the order of the day in such places, each tavern being in itself "a broacher of more news than hogsheads, and more jests than news."
Royalty Restored 1883
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Upon this footing, it shall be safe for every broacher of new heresy to gain as many proselytes to it as he can; and there is none of them all, though never so absurd, impious, and blasphemous, but shall have proselytes and professors more or less; and what a large part of the nation must this necessarily draw in!
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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We shall run ourselves into endless mistakes: Thou wilt be found a liar, a corrupter of the word of truth, a broacher of heresies, and guilty of the worst of forgeries, counterfeiting the broad seal of heaven, and pretending a divine mission and inspiration, when it is all
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Shreu. this fellow was a principall broacher of the broile fawk.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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By this small broacher, we tried to cover up all the activities of our services providers for the owners but as you know each of them are an organization and their technical field is very vast.
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