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expounder|ɛkˈspaʊndə(r)|
Also 4–5 expowner, 5 expownder.
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who expounds; an expositor. Occasionally transf. of a thing: That which serves to expound.
1388Wyclif Gen. xli. 7 He [Farao] sente to alle the expowneris of Egipt..and..he telde the dreem. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xii. 65 Alle expowners and glose ȝeuers to Holi Scripture. 1535Coverdale 1 Sam. xxviii. 3 Saul had dryuen the soythsayers and expounders of tokens out of y⊇ londe. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding 120 The Custome and practise of the people, is the best expounder of the Lawe. 1786Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1842 II. 115 Magistrates and expounders of the Mahomedan law. 1869tr. Pouchet's Universe (1871) 3 Bonnet, one of the most zealous expounders of natural history. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 6 The argument of which the Athenian is the expounder.
Hence † exˈpoundress, Obs. rare, a female expounder.
1604Supplic. Masse Priests §37 The Romish Church, whom they make chiefe expoundresse of Scriptures. |