[f. as prec. + -OR.] One who elucidates.

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1709.  Felton, Diss. Classics (1730), 168 (J.). Obscurity that is brought over them by … their pedantical Elucidators.

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1787–91.  ‘G. Gambado,’ Acad. Horsem. (1809), 41. As my ingenious elucidator shews you.

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1846.  Hawthorne, Mosses, II. viii. (1864), 180. The works of his own elucidators were flung upon him.

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