Noun
seductor
- seducer
1490, “Capitulo xvj”, in William Caxton, transl., edited by M[athew] T[ewart] Culley and F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490, Englisht from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483, London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., […] , published 1890, page 60, lines 30–33:The whiche seductor of ladies, as parys that enwedded ye fayr heleyne, kepeth himself in maner as a woman, in their companye, wyth his longe heres that he maketh to be enoynted & kemed […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
a. 1492, “Of saynt Apolonyon Religyous & martyr. begynnyng in latyn ¶ Trade hant ergo / Caplm xix.”, in Wyllyam Caxton, transl., Vitas Patrum, Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, published 1495, folio xxii, recto:[…] one namyd Phylemon. whyche was moche amyable & debonayr to ye peple. & called hỹſelf ſeductour & deceyour of the peple / […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- M[athew] T[ewart] Culley and F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, editors (1890), Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490, Englisht from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483, London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., […] , page 185: “Seductor, sb. seducer, 60/30.”
James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “† Sedu·ctor”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 376, column 2: “a. OF. seducteur, ad. L. sēductor, agent-noun f. sēdūcĕre: see Seduce and -or.”