explorern.

1577 D. Settle True Rep. Voy. Frobisher sig. Div Countries new explored, where commoditie is to be loked for, doe better accord with a new name giuen by the explorers, then an vncerteine name by a doubtfull Authour.

1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III ii. 42 He came to Saint Poole in Dorset, where he lay some time at Anchor, to send his Boates a shore as Explorers or Spies, for discovery of the Coasts, where the Kings Armie, or his friends lay.

1742 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 2) II. iv. vi. 292 The Report of the cowardly Explorers of the Land.

1790 Monthly Rev. 3 219 The mighty difference between his private unexaggerated remarks on the scenes which he visited, and the descriptions which would have been given of them by the explorer of Abyssinia.

1812 R. Wilson Private Diary I. 375 The explorers enter, and immediately find themselves in a marble cave.

1856 E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. Introd. 19 Anthony Jenkinson, the enterprising explorer of the Persian route to India.

1921 V. Stefansson Friendly Arctic ii. 22 Like the typical explorer, I was brave and prepared to fight the best fight I knew how and to die if necessary for the advancement of science.

1990 Financial Times 29 Dec. ii. p. xvi/1 With eight expeditions to his credit, including the first round-the-world trip through the poles, some have called [Ranulph] Fiennes the greatest living explorer.

2012 A. Wulf Chasing Venus ii. viii. 105 The few intrepid explorers who had ventured to the region had returned with accounts of its unimaginable vastness.

1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. 735/1 The meaning of this must be collected from the office of the..explorers or examiners, or triers, by which he explains it, and of them, saith he..One set to examine slaves to find out the truth.

1703 T. Brown et al. Contin. Lett. from Dead to Living (new ed.) 20^* To all our Trusty and well Beloved Explorers of Nature, and Cherishers of Learning, Greeting.

?1794 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 5 162 That great explorer of the most hidden processes of nature, Doctor Priestly.

1848 Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. New Ser. 3 p. lxi Admirable as a scholar, as a jurist, as a philologist, as an explorer of truth.

1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lxiv. 6 These are..explorers in iniquity.

1937 Los Angeles Times 5 Oct. a2/8 The culinary explorer will have his choice of Italian spaghetti,..French salad, Swedish pastry and German coffee.

1977 L. O. Lee in M. Goldman Mod. Chinese Lit. in May Fourth Era ii. viii. 187 Spiritual explorers of the human soul.

2010 A. C. Grayling Thinking of Answers 98 The coal-face archival and archaeological work of the professional explorer of the past.

1685 R. Boyle Short Mem. Hist. Mineral Waters 40 The extent of this explorer of Waters [sc. a Powder] is not very great.

1830 Boston Courier 18 Jan. An apparatus, or machine, to which the inventor, Mr. Sewell Short, has given the name of Submarine Explorer. It is constructed for the purpose of raising property from the bottom of the sea... It is a large leathern tube, of sufficient capacity to admit the body of a man.

1884 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 30 Aug. 7212/2 The first chamber contains, in addition, telegraphic and telephonic apparatus that connect the explorer with the yacht that accompanies it.

1902 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Naval Engineers Aug. 196/1 Julius H. Kroehl..invented and put in use a navigable submarine explorer.

1961 Washington Post 23 July a4/1 Work is in progress to launch the first Ranger space craft—the Nation's most complex lunar explorer.

1992 Astronomy Now July 12/1 The robotic mobile explorer will be deployed on the martian surface.

1844 T. E. Bond tr. J. Lefoulon New Treat. Theory & Pract. Dental Surg. x. 134 This is the explorer [Fr. la Rugine explorateur]. It is shaped like a very small penknife blade, very pointed, thin, and a little bent at the end.

1869 Nature 9 Dec. 177/2 On a new electrical explorer for detecting foreign (especially metallic) substances in the tissues of the human body, by M. Trouvé.

1921 Dental Reg. 75 577 First, with a fine-pointed explorer loosen up any debris in the fissure.

2013 J. M. Powers & J. C. Wataha Dental Materials (ed. 10) iii. 32/1 The sealant should offer considerable resistance to attempts to penetrate it with the tip of an explorer.