单词 | examinator |
释义 | examinatorn. Chiefly Scottish. Now historical and rare. 1. A person who conducts, sets, or marks examinations to test knowledge, skill, or competence; = examiner n. 2.In quot. 1484: a person who conducts an oral examination of a candidate's suitability. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > examiner examinator1484 examinerc1485 positor1494 examinant1587 poser1587 marker1884 flunker1910 1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) iv. 47 Hym [sc. a squyer that wylle entre in to the ordre of Chyualrye] behoueth an examynatour whiche ought to be a knyght. 1548 in A. J. Warden Dundee Burgh Laws (1872) 333 Thir ar the nems of the assessors and examinators to be wyth the said dekyne in tymes of examinationes. 1599 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1599/7/16 The principall maisteris of the remanent tua colledgis salbe the ordiner examinatouris yeirlie of everie class of theologie. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 59 Qualified..by the strict approbation of deputed examinators. 1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iv. xx. 362 These Examinators shall be Masters or Doctors, or Licentiates in Divinity or Canon Law. 1750 J. Dunn tr. C. F. Lambert Coll. Curious Observ. I. xi 188 It is the custom in China for the court to send every three years an examinator into each province. His business is carefully to examine the compositions which every graduate is oblig'd to present him with. 1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 259 It was not unusual to obtain a private hint from the examinators on what chapter their questions were to be founded. 1866 Sc. Law Reporter 3 6/2 The examinators shall be nine members of Faculty, nominated by the Dean, as heretofore. 1993 W. B. Horner 19th-cent. Sc. Rhetoric v. 103 Jardine suggested the system of appointing ten or twelve of the best students to serve as examinators. 2. Law. A person who conducts a judicial inquiry, or who formally questions a witness; = examiner n. 1. Frequently in lord examinator: a judge presiding over a hearing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > one who judges or decides > conducting enquiry examinera1325 examinator1564 examinanta1797 1564 in R. Renwick Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) V. Pref. p. ix The quhilk day, in presens of the lordis examinatouris underwrittin..comperit personalie Maister Henry Gibsone, notar. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 201 The lord examinatour quha heiris the witnese examinate. 1671 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1910) 3rd Ser. III. 285 He..confessed before the examinatours that some of the rebells..did take the petitioner alongst with them. 1732 T. Dawson tr. Aeschines in tr. Aeschines & Demosthenes Orations conc. Crown 28 Ought you not to have permitted the Examinator's Cryer to make this usual and legal Proclamation, ‘Who has a Mind to accuse?’ 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 109 The Witness..repeats the Words after the Lord Examinator. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 178 Having, like a prudent examinator, suffered his witness to give vent to all her..indignation. 1951 P. Hunt Oscar Slater 65 The evidence of a witness..was reduced to writing..and signed by himself and by the judge—called the Lord Examinator. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [noun] > person conducting searchera1382 inseerc1438 intracer?a1475 inquisitor?1504 investigator1538 peruser1549 tracer1552 scrutineer1557 examinant1587 revisitor1594 examiner?1608 examinator1612 researcher1615 indagator1620 ferret1629 pryer1674 probator1691 disquisitor1766 grubber1776 prober1777 grubbler1813 detective1850 expiscator1882 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. viii. 192 The office of a Bawde..should not be practised but by people well borne; and ought besides to haue a Veedor, and examinator of them. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vi. 299 An inference somewhat Rabbinicall, and not of power to perswade a serious examinator . View more context for this quotation 1752 T. Simson Inq. Vital & Animal Actions 8 There commences a redundancy of the blood, according to Sanctorius, of a pound or two; which no other statical examinator could ever confirm. 1783 Town & Country Mag. Mar. 168/2 John Hewitt, Esq...examinator of the hearth money in Dublin. 1830 Blackwood's Mag. 28 698 That severe and acute examinator of historical truth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1484 |
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