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examinant, n. and a.|ɛgˈzæmɪnənt|
Also 7 -ante, 8 -ent.
[ad. L. exāminant-em, pr. pple. of exāmināre: see examine v. and -ant.
The passive sense 2 (in our quots. earlier than 1) is unetymological; app. it was felt that the older examinate n. etymologically meant rather ‘one who has been examined’ than ‘one who is being examined,’ and the derivative of the pr. pple. was adopted to express the latter notion.]
A. n.
1. One who examines; esp. one who conducts a judicial or academic examination; an examiner.
1620Shelton Quix. III. ii. i, Don Quixote..was so discreet, that the two examinants undoubtedly believed he was quite well. 1661Evelyn Diary 13 May, The Examinants or Posers were Dr. Duport, Greek Professor at Cambridge; Dr. Fell, etc. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II, III. 271 The chief examinents were General Cholmondeley and Lord Albemarle. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xiii, The upper end, where the examinants sate, was thrown into shadow. 1847Disraeli Tancred vi. xi, The converts..were..older Christians than either of their examinants. 1859J. C. Hobhouse Italy I. 288 Objects whose authenticity may be questioned by the first cool examinant.
b. In comb. self-examinant (nonce-word).
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1854) 126 If the self-examinant will abandon this position.
†2.
a. One who is being examined; one who is being examined as a witness; a deponent. Obs.
1588Losses Sp. Navy in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 52 The admiral came away with seven and twenty sail, which this examinant did tell. 1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) 29 She slaundered the examinant: being tolld of the daunger of a sclaunder, she is fledd. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull viii, He brought a certain powder to his mistress, which the examinant believes to be the same. 1777T. McKean in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 446 One of the examinants said that..a great number of..officers were killed. 1812J. J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 161 The questions did not admit of equivocation, if the examinants had been so inclined.
†b. One who undergoes an examination as to his fitness for church-membership, ordination, etc.; an examinee. Obs.
1633D. Rogers Treat. Sacraments ii. 14 To instruct all Christian examinants, in their triall to be careful of themselves. 1663Flagellum; or O. Cromwell (1672) 148 The questions these men put to the Examinants, was not of Abilities or Learning, but, etc. 1715Prideaux On Ref. Two Univ. in Life 234 The examiners shall examine two at a time..the examinants shall appear before them, in classes of six at a time.
†B. adj. That has the function of examining.
1653Milton Hirelings Wks. (1851) 373 For the Magistrate..by his examinant committies to circumscribe her free election of Ministers. |