[a. late L. exāminātor, f. exāmināre: see EXAMINE v.] One who examines.
† 1. = EXAMINER 1. Obs.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. vi. 299. An inference somewhat Rabbinicall, and not of power to perswade a serious examinator.
1783. Town & Country Mag., 168/2. Deaths…. John Hewitt, Esq. … examinator of the hearth money in Dublin.
1830. Moir, in Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. 698. That severe and acute examinator of historical truth.
† 2. Sc. = EXAMINER 2. Obs.
1752. J. Louthian, Form of Process (ed. 2), 109. The Witness … repeats the Words after the Lord Examinator.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xxxii. Having, like a prudent examinator, suffered his witness to give vent to all her … indignation.
3. = EXAMINER 3. rare exc. Sc.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., Democr. (1676), 38/1. Qualified … by the strict approbation of deputed examinators.
1706. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 16th C., II. IV. xx. 362. These Examinators shall be Masters or Doctors, or Licentiates in Divinity or Canon Law.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., Introd. 25. To collect the suffrages of the surgeons who were the examinators.
1835. Fraser’s Mag., XII. 259. It was not unusual to obtain a private hint from the examinators on what chapter their questions were to be founded.
1852. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss., 485. In no European faculty of Arts was Theology a subject on which its examinators had a right to question the candidate.
