queller
(ˈkwɛlə(r))
[OE. cwellere = ON. kveljari: see quell v.1 and -er1.]
One who quells, in senses of the vb.
Freq. as a second element in combs., e.g. boy-, child-, devil-, giant-, manqueller.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. vii. (1890) 38 Se sylfa cwellere ðe hine slean sceolde. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Mark vi. 27 Se cinincg..sende ænne cwellere. c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 37/116 [To] Iosie þe quellare he was bi-take. 1388 Wyclif Tobit iii. 9 Thou sleeresse [v.r. quellere] of thin hosebondis. c 1520 Barclay Jugurtha (ed. 2) 48 The ioye of the quellars and murderers. 1671 Milton P.R. iv. 633 Hail Son of the most High..Queller of Satan. 1804 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 219 The promoters and quellers of the Wexford insurrection. 1881 Seeley Bonaparte in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 168/2 The queller of Jacobinism..Bonaparte. |