interpretern.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 262/2 Interpretowre, or expownere, interpres.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 32 God seiþ bi Ysaie..þin enterpretors han brokyn þe lawe aȝenis Me.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. vii. sig. G.iii^v Al olde y^e holy enterpretors haue construed the scripture agaynst them.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xxii. A Balaam the sonne of Beor, which was an interpreter.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G3 They conuert their labours to aspire to certaine second Prizes; as to be a profound Interpreter or Commenter. View more context for this quotation

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 23 Then said Christian to the Interpreter, Expound this matter more fully to me.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour Proheme sig. aiij^v I..beseche your hyghnes, to dayne to be..defendour of this litle warke, agayne the assaultes of maligne interpretours.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 84 What we oft doe best, By sicke Interpreters..is Not ours, or not allow'd. View more context for this quotation

1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) vii. 191 Tears are a Penitents best Interpreter.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ii. 17 We have supposed that the spectator..is a faithful interpreter of the phenomena presented to his senses.

1857 E. B. Pusey Real Presence (1869) ii. 185 Our prayers are the interpreters of the articles.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 113 The Poets and the Sophists, who are their interpreters.

1884 R. W. Church Bacon ix. 225 Great ideas and great principles need their adequate interpreter..if they are to influence the history of mankind.

1607 J. Cowell (title) The interpreter: or booke containing the signification of words.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. (title) The English Dictionarie: or, an Interpreter of hard English Words.

1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter Pref. I have reserved to it the former Name, and call it The Interpreter, which is most proper, as opening those obscure terms which otherwise are with great difficulty understood.

1950 A. Lee Soviet Air Force ii. 55 Large flying units..had photographic interpreter specialists.

1958 C. B. Smith Evidence in Camera i. 21 Although the art of interpreting air photographs had been developed quite a long way in the First World War, in the summer of 1939 there was precisely one experienced interpreter.

c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 48 Iohan þat translatyd þis book..ful wys, & leel enterpretour of langages.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. sig. a.i The Hebrewes..accompt for the sayd terme. iii. M. ix. C. sixty and. iii. yeres. the seuenty Interpretours rekyn. v. M. C. lxxx. and. xix. yeres.

1535 M. Coverdale Pref. Apocrypha The other prayer and songe..haue I not founde amonge eny of the interpreters, but onely in the olde latyn texte, which reporteth it to be of Theodotios translacion.

1797 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Discov. II. 398 This error has been occasioned by the seventy interpreters.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xiv. 28 If ther be not an interpretour, be he stille in the chirche.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xlii. B They knew not that Ioseph vnderstode it, for he spake vnto them by an interpreter [thē (them) in text.].

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. xliii. 660 The letters [were] read by an enterpretour.

1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 212 In Cases where the Prisoner and Witnesses, do not understand the British Language, Interpreters must be procured and sworn, as follows.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 109 Psammetichus..consigned a number of Egyptian boys to their care, to be instructed in the Greek language, so as to form a permanent class of interpreters.

1936 Office Machine Man. Dec. The Interpreter which interprets the information punched into the card and prints such information in figures along the top edge of the card.

1949 E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains iv. 47 The chief IBM punch-card machines are: the key punch, the verifier, the sorter, the interpreter, the reproducer, the collator, the multiplying punch, the calculating punch, and the tabulator.

1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing iii. 54 If the cards have no text, a special machine, an ‘interpreter’, can be used to read the cards and print their contents on the top line.

1954 Computers & Automation Dec. 15/2 Interpreter, an executive routine which, as the computation progresses, translates a stored program expressed in some machine-like pseudo-code into machine code and performs the indicated operations, by means of subroutines, as they are translated.

1958 C. G. Gotlieb & J. N. P. Hume High-speed Data Processing xiv. 291 If a complete translation of the program is prepared before the initiation of its operation the system is a compiler; if the pseudo-code is retranslated each time it is used during operation, the system is an interpreter.

1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers ix. 143 As the number of subroutines available increased..whole programs could be written without any machine code being necessary. The coded orders were read in and a special routine (called the interpretive program or ‘interpreter’) selected each required subroutine in turn.