| 释义 |
explorator|ˈɛkspləˌreɪtə(r)|
Also 5–6 -our.
[a. L. explōrātor f. explōrāre: see explore. Cf. F. explorateur.]
One who or that which explores.
†1. One who is employed to collect information, esp. with regard to an enemy, or an enemy's country; a scout, a spy. Obs.
c1450Burgh Secrees 2452 Expert in language have explo[ra]tourys..to knowe alle ther labourys. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 2483 Two exploratours..that broght the grape clustre to desert fro the lande of promissionne. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 104 Vespasian..was advertist by his exploratouris, that Caratak..had renewit his army. 1616Rich Cabinet 68 b, Thus did the explorators of the land of Canaan terrifie the Jewes. 1685Cotton Montaigne III. 370 Thou art the explorator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction. 1721–1800in Bailey.
†b. transf. One who searches diligently. Obs.
1583Exec. for Treason 38 These Seminaries, secrete wanderers, and explorators in the darke. 1681H. Hallywell Melampr. 92 This envious Explorator or searcher for faults [Satan].
2. One who explores (a country) for the purpose of discovery.
1844N. Brit. Rev. I. 145 America has sent forth to the Holy Land its best explorators.
3.
†a. An apparatus invented by Beccaria for ascertaining the electrical condition of the atmosphere (Craig 1847).
b. (See quot.)
c. electric explorator = ‘electrical explorer’.
b.1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Chest explorator, an exploring needle or trochar used for introduction between the ribs to diagnose the presence of empyema. |