calumniator

călumnĭātor (kălumnĭātor; v. the foreg.), ōris, m. [calumnior]; mostly t. t.,

• a contriver of tricks or artifices, a pettifogger, a perverter of law, a chicaner (sometimes, perhaps, branded on the forehead with the letter K = calumniator; cf. Voss, Arist. 1, 17; Ernest. Clav. Cic. Ind. Leg. s. v. Remmia): si calvitur et moretur et frustratur. Inde et calumniatores appellati sunt, quia per fraudem et frustrationem alios vexarent litibus, Dig. 50, 16, 223: scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse: boni judicis, voluntatem scriptoris auctoritatemque defendere, Cic. Caecil. 23, 65: calumniatores apponere, id. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 27: calumniatorem quaerere, id. ib. 2, 2, 8, § 22; 2, 2, 10, § 26: egens, id. Clu. 59, 163; id. Quint. 28, 87; Phaedr. 1, 17, 2; Mart. 11, 66, 1; Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 4; Suet. Rhet. 4.—
• II Trop.: calumniator sui, one who is too anxious in regard to his work, over-scrupulous, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 92; cf. calumnia, III. B., and calumnior, II. B.

calumniātor, ōris, m. (calumnior), der Ränkeschmied, Rechtsverdreher, Schikaneur, trügerische Ankläger, aliquis c. atque improbus, Cic.: delator et c., Mart.: Epidius c., Suet.: calumniatorem apponere, Cic.: scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse; boni iudicis, voluntatem scriptoris auctoritatemque defendere, Cic.: litem sibi inferri aegerrime calumniator patitur, Sen. – Plur., Augustin. ep. 17, 4. – calumniator sui, der Künstler, der übertriebene Kritik gegen sich selbst übt, Plin. 34, 92.

calumniator [CL] 1 false accuser, traducer. b (?) captious critic. c accuser. d Satan. convenerunt ‥ prefati ~ores Chr. Abingd. II 229 (cf. ib. 228: jurgatores); appellans gaole committetur, tanquam ~or puniendus Fleta 48; ut pape innocencia declaretur et ~or evidencius convincatur Ockham Dial. 559; [Deus] qui, dum in judicio salvos facit filios pauperum, habebit ~orem ‥ humiliari [cf. Psalm. lxxi (lxxii) 4] Reg. Whet. II 367.  b 1520 memini te mecum expostulasse quod in literis ad amicum te faciam ~orem literarum sacrarum (E. Lee) Ep. Erasm. 1061.  c reddant callumpniatori [AS: þam teonde] suum censum capitalem (Cons. Cnuti) GAS 329; nemo cogetur warantum vocare antequam ~or producat en gaige manu sexta (Leis Will.) Ib. 509; 1155 (1267) si ipse prepositus [regis] eos [burgenses] aliqua occasione sine †calumnitatore inplacitaverit, non respondeant (Wallingford) CalCh II 68.  d s1256 ante summi Judicis tribunal humani generis hostili ~ori quid poterunt respondere? M. Par. Maj. V 571. 2 claimant. a1135 si ~or [terre] puer sit non habens etatem placitandi, ei respondeat (Newcastle) BBC 71; c1150 hanc redditionem ‥ contra quemlibet ‥ ~orem warantizabimus Reg. Malm. I 454 (cf. ib. 455: si quis ~or reddite terre contra monachos ‥ apparuerit); c1157 (1329) si ‥ calumpnia fieret, ‥ illas xxx libratas terre ‥ episcopo restitueret ‥ vel ipsis ~oribus inde excambium daret CalCh IV 109; c1170 Alfnothus ‥, terram contra ecclesiam ‥ calumniatus, ‥ Ædnothum ‥ coram judicibus apparere coegit. ‥ Ædnothus ‥ justo ‥ titulo se eam possedisse affirmavit. quem cum ~or interrogaret ‥ Chr. Rams. 79; ut uterque ~or, quia ibi nihil juris habebat, vacuus a spe sua ‥ recederet Chr. Abingd. II 206.

calumnĭātŏr, (13) ōris, m. (calumnior), chicaneur, celui qui fait un emploi abusif de la loi : dicemus calumniatoris esse officium verba et litteras sequi, neglegere voluntatem Her. 2, 14, nous dirons que cʼest le fait dʼun chicaneur que de sʼattacher à la lettre et au texte, et de laisser de côté les intentions, cf. Cic. Cæc. 65 || faux accusateur : calumniatores ex sinu suo apposuit Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, il aposta de faux accusateurs tirés de son entourage intime || calumniator sui Plin. 34, 92, qui se cherche chicane à soi-même, critique trop sévère de soi-même.

➳ orth. kal-, v. Cic. Amer. 57.

calumniator , oris. m. et, v. calumnior
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calumniātor ōris, m

• calumnior, a trickster, malicious prosecutor, false informer, perverter of law: scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse: calumniatores apponere: egens: Calumniator ab ove cum peteret canis, Ph.