Forms: α. 5 Sc. vencusour, 6 vanquysser, Sc. -quisser, venquesair, vinquiesser. β. 5 vaynquyssheur, -our, 6 venquesshor, vanquysher, 6– vanquisher. [f. as prec.] A conqueror, subduer.
α. 1456. [see prec.].
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, xv. 40. Yf it fortunyd that the vanquysser sle his enymye.
1549. Compl. Scot., xvii. 149. The victoree is ioyful quhen the enemeis are venqueist vitht out domage to the venquesair.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 8. That he mycht declair him self vinquiesser ouir death and sathan.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 302. A certane ȝoung man,… the principal vanquisser of Cam.
β. 1474. Caxton, Chesse, III. vii. In suffryng hym thou shalt be his vaynquysshour. Ibid. (1490), Eneydos, xi. 42. God forbede that it may be sayd of Eneas,… vaynquyssheur of grete bataylles [etc.].
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., II. (1811), 20. Dunwallo … was venquesshor of ye other Dukes or rulers.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 441. The Saints … are victorers and vanquishers, howsoeuer they are oppressed.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Gt. Eater Kent, ii. This inuincible ale victoriously vanquished the vanquisher.
1652. Kirkman, Clerio & Lozia, 83. This superbe Vanquisher receiving the Trophies and the Laurels.
1724. Richers, Hist. Roy. Geneal. Spain, 266. The Castle of Zamora soon after surrender’d to the vanquisher.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. III. vii. 400, note. Combats, wherein they were sometimes the vanquishers, and sometimes the vanquished.
1863. J. G. Murphy, Comm., Gen. xxxii. 27. The secret of his power with his friendly vanquisher.
