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scrutator|skruːˈteɪtə(r)|
[a. L. scrūtātor, agent-n. f. scrūtārī to examine, scrutinize, app. f. scrūta pl., ‘old or broken stuff, trash, frippery, trumpery’ (L. & Sh.); the etymological sense of the vb. is supposed to be ‘to search even to the rags’ (ibid.).]
1. One who examines or investigates.
1593Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex i. 10 Master Camden, a singuler scrutator of antiquities. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 452 The very disquisition concerning any one part of the Brain, the Eye, the Nerves, the Blood hath perplexed the most exact Scrutators. 1822Q. Rev. XXVIII. 188 He threw down the gauntlet of defiance to the learned scrutators into the hidden mysteries of hieroglyphical lore. 1879Meredith Egoist xlii, She would have declared herself innocent before the scrutator.
2. spec. One whose office it is to examine or investigate closely, esp. one who acts as an examiner of votes at an election, etc.; a scrutineer.
1618Hales Let. fr. Synod of Dort Golden Rem. ii. (1673) 2 The manner of election was by Scrutiny... The Scrutators were two of the Seculars,..these calculated the voices and pronounced the election. 1734–5Act 8 Geo. II, c. 6 §4 The justices of the peace..shall be scrutators of the ballot. 1908Athenæum 16 May 609/3 Messrs. M. S. Giuseppi and W. A. Littledale were appointed scrutators of the ballot.
b. As the title of a university official. (See quots.) Now only Hist.
1580Grindal Let. to Burleigh in Strype Life (1710) 251 The said Mr. Barrow..alledgeth another [university] Statute, made by Grace,..concerning the Scrutators. 1665J. Buck in Peacock Stat. Cambridge App. B, p. lv, The Scrutators also doe..give over their office by delivery of their keys to the V. Ch. 1793Acc. Proc. Camb. agst. W. Frend 195 The statutes which relate to the duty of scrutators and moderators on passing graces. 1831Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 412 note, In Oxford..the two Proctors..were necessarily chosen, one from the Northern, the other from the Southern men; also the two Scrutators, anciently distinct (?) from the Proctors. 1835in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 117 The Vicechancellor, Proctors, and Scrutators examine the votes received. 1841Peacock Stat. Cambridge 25 The two scrutators were elected by the non-regents of each congregation, to collect the votes, and announce the decisions of their house, in the same manner as was done by the two proctors in the house of regents. |