▪ I. hater, n.1
(ˈheɪtə(r))
[f. hate v. + -er1.]
One who hates; an enemy.
| 1382 Wyclif Prov. xxvii. 6 The gileful kosses of the hatere. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 229/2 Hatare, or he þat hatythe, osor. 1535 Coverdale Ps. lxxx[i]. 15 The haters of y⊇ Lorde shulde mysse Israel. c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxix. ii, Haters have I, more than haires. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. i. 9, I wore my life To spend vpon his haters. 1738 Swift Polite Convers. 102, I suppose, the Gentleman's a Women-Hater. a 1784 Johnson in Piozzi Anecd. (1786) 83 Dear Bathurst..was a man to my very heart's content; he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig: he was a very good hater. 1887 Ruskin Præterita II. iv. 124 A violent hater of the old Dutch school. |
Hence ˈhatress nonce-wd., a woman that hates.
| 1892 Pall Mall G. 1 Feb. 3/3 A man-hatress, as clever girls so often are. |
▪ II. † ˈhater, ˈhatter, n.2 Obs. or dial.
Forms: pl. 1 hæteru, -ra, 3 hateren, 4 hatere, hattren, 9 dial. hattern. sing. 3 hatter, heater, hetter, 4 hater, 4–5 hatere, 5 hatir, -yr, hattir.
[OE. hæteru, prob. from a sing. *hæt (? hǽt): cf. MHG. hâȥ ‘coat, dress, clothing’, mod.Swabian häs, hesz (pl. hesser), Swiss häs, gehäs. The ME. plural would thus be parallel to childer, children; and the sing. hater, hatter, a new formation. (If the vowel of OE. hæt was orig. short, it would be in ablaut relation (hatoz-: hæ̂toz) to the MHG. form.)]
1. pl. (and sing.) Clothes, clothing collectively.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 330 He næfde ne biᵹleofan, ne hælðe, ne hætera. Ibid. 374 Se hund..totær his hæteru sticmælum of his bæce. c 1205 Lay. 30778 Alle his hateren weoren to-toren. a 1225 Ancr. R. 104 Swoti hateren. a 1300 Cursor M. 20211 Of scho did tan al hir hater. 13.. K. Alis. 7054 Naked they goth, withowten hater [rime water]. c 1310 Man in Moon in Ritson Anc. Songs (1877) 59 Þe þornes beþ kene, is hattren to tereþ. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Hattern, clothing of all kinds. |
2. sing. A garment, a vestment.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 418 Ȝe schulen liggen in on heater [v.rr. hatter, hetter], and i-gurd. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 157 An hater, to helye with hus bones. c 1440 York Myst. xxix. 360, I have here a hatir to hyde hym. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 229/2 Hatyr, rent clothe (K. hatere, H., P. hatere, or hatyr), scrutum, pannucia. |
▪ III. † ˈhater, v. Obs.
[f. hater n.2]
trans. To clothe, attire. Hence hatering vbl. n., clothing.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 33 In to þesse wrecheliche hateringe of þisse worelde. 13.. K. Alis. 5922 Thinnelich hy beth y-hatered. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 76 Freres..folilich spenen [v.r. spenden] In housyng, in haterynge..More for pompe þan for pure charite. |