† conquestor Obs.
Also 5–6 -our.
[ME. and AF. conquestour = OF. conquesteur, ad. med.L. conquæstor, conquēstor, in same sense, for conquæsītor (like quæstor from quæsītor) = conquīsītor (itself also in same sense in Trivet).]
= conqueror.
As a surname, often used as equivalent to Magnus, ‘Great’: e.g. Alexander, Charles, William the Great, or Conquestor.
| [a 1491 J. Rossi Hist. Reg. Angl. (1716) 118 Per Alexandrum Magnum et alios Conquestores.] 1494 Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxix. 176 Takyng example of Charlys the conquestour. 1549 Compl. Scot. ix. 80 Vrangus conquestours..hes be thair tyrany inuadit vthir cuntrays. 1555 Eden Decades 319 In the which the conquestours had hytherto neuer good successe. 1609 Skene Reg. Mag. 57 King Robert Bruise, the great conquestor. |
b. Applied to William I of England, the Conqueror. [Chiefly in Latin.]
| [1100–40 Ordericus Vitalis 603 A, Guillelmus Magnus id est Conquæstor rex Anglorum. c 1325 Trivet Ann. (1845) 4 Henricus primus..Willelmi, qui Conquisitor erat, filius. c 1450 Lydg. Verses on Kings in Hist. Collect. (Camd. Soc. 1876) 49 heading, Wyllelmus Conquestor. a 1491 J. Rossi Hist. Reg. Angl. (1716) 106 Rex Willielmus conquestor post conquestum cum obsidibus de Anglicis in Normanniam transmeavit.] a 1670 Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 108 In the reign of our William Conquestor. [1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. xiii. (1887) 184, I have a certain indestructible regard for Willelmus Conquæstor.] |