How to pronounce“hector”in English
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Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully.
“Luc[ia]. VVhat would you do you dowty Hectors? / Kick. Hectors! upon my honour, if we can find them out, we'll beat your Gallants for this. / […] Luc. Advant, you Hectors, we are not fit for you: […]”
To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.
“Theſe Nimrods (ſay they) grew great by the Strength of their Limbs and their Vices, engraved their Murthers upon their Shields, and Hectored all the Little and Peaceable People into Peaſantry.”
To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.
“[…] I was ſent for by the marſhall, huffed and hectored ſtrangely, thretned, &c., in fine, muſte give bonds to the good behaviour; I refuſed, […]”
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