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Definition of Distorter
1. n. One who, or that which, distorts.
Definition of Distorter
1. Noun. One that distorts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Distorter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distorter
Literary usage of Distorter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Right Living by Susan Helen Wixon (1894)
"ANGER, THE distorter. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he
that nil- eth his spirit than he that taketh a city. BIBLE. ..."
2. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"... and the preceding raise the angles of the mouth, as in laughter: hence the
term distorter oris ("distorter of the mouth") has been applied to them. ..."
3. Gene Transfer in Animal Systems: Bibliography, 1985-1991 (1993)
"... distorter system (SD) to the X chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster. ...
whether the meiotic drive system Segregation distorter (SD) can operate on the ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... him from the Church and drove him from Alexandria, as a distorter On the
testimony of St. Jerome (Ep. xlvi) that " until ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"When this distorter had ended his beautiful soliloquy, and that the stupid, but
greatly edified, congregation were separated, I asked my friend how it was ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1850)
"Gil Bias ' is the romance of a Paris bookmaker.' Blanco White is ' a falsifier
of the commonest facts, a distorter of the plainest conclusions. ..."
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