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revelator|rɛvəˈleɪtə(r)|
[a. late L. revelātor. So F. révélateur, Sp. and Pg. revelador, It. re-, rivelatore.]
1. One who or that which makes a revelation; a revealer.
1801Massachusetts Spy 20 May 1/2 They shall have their part (saith John the Revelator) in the lake which burneth. 1840Latter-Day Saints Millenial Star June 28/1 The prophet Daniel and the revelator John. 1849Whittier Prose Wks. (1889) I. 142 Nay,..it should rather..call to mind what the Revelator hath said of the Holy City. 1875Grindon Life i. 9 Light is the great and universal Revelator. 1884Haweis Mus. Life II. 420 Mendelssohn has been to me..a revelator of the beautiful. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 25 July 842/3 Lawrence's rhapsodies on John the Revelator's horses.
2. A name given to the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1867W. H. Dixon New Amer. II. ii. 12 The Mormon will put his trust in Joseph, as a natural seer and revelator. 1895Denver Times 5 Mar. 8/2 Joseph Smith, the son of the martyr Joseph Smith, is now prophet, seer and revelator. 1974Time 7 Jan. 59/3 Lee was one of the youngest men ever to become ‘prophet, seer, and revelator’ of the Mormons. |