| 释义 |
unˈfolder
[f. unfold v.1]
One who, or that which, unfolds, in various senses of the word.
1611Cotgr., Expliqueur, an explicator, vnfolder, explainer. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 240 Himself was an accurate unfolder of truth. 1728Theobald Double Falsehood i. ii, Is your Father yet moved in the Suit, who must be the prime Unfolder of this Business? 1797Monthly Mag. III. 264 Both copyists and unfolders [of papyrus rolls] are injudiciously paid by the month. 1845Trench Huls. Lect. vii. 115 The unfolder of all the nobler and higher life of the world. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos ix. 119 The sudden appearance..of the Unfolder of the roll. |
