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examinator|ɛgˈzæmɪneɪtə(r)|
[a. late L. exāminātor, f. exāmināre: see examine v.]
One who examines.
†1. = examiner 1. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. vi. 299 An inference somewhat Rabbinicall, and not of power to perswade a serious examinator. 1783Town & Country Mag. 168 John Hewitt, Esq...examinator of the hearth money in Dublin. 1830Moir in Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 698 That severe and acute examinator of historical truth.
†2. Sc. = examiner 2. Obs.
1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 109 The Witness..repeats the Words after the Lord Examinator. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxii, Having, like a prudent examinator, suffered his witness to give vent to all her..indignation.
3. = examiner 3. rare exc. Sc.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. (1676) 38/1 Qualified..by the strict approbation of deputed examinators. 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iv. xx. 362 These Examinators shall be Masters or Doctors, or Licentiates in Divinity or Canon Law. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. Introd. 25 To collect the suffrages of the surgeons who were the examinators. 1835Fraser's Mag. XII. 259 It was not unusual to obtain a private hint from the examinators on what chapter their questions were to be founded. 1852Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. 485 In no European Faculty of Arts was Theology a subject on which its examinators had a right to question the candidate. |