explodern.

1659 H. More Immortality of Soul i. x. 64 Mr. Hobbs, that confident Exploder of Immaterial Substances out of the world.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. ***2^v [Some affirm that atheists do not exist, but] these so confident Exploders of them, are both Unskilled in..Antiquity, and Unacquainted with the Present Age.

1681 H. Hallywell Melampronoea 3 This Age hath produced too many over-confident Exploders of Immaterial Substances.

a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 296 Scandalous Exploders of the Doctrine of Passive Obedience.

1858 United Presbyterian Mag. Apr. 176/2 This exploder of the claims of mere wealth.

1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) i. 51 Which of our Exploders of the infinitely less-constraining Use of Rhyme would think it reasonable to condemn the not to be disputed Elegance of Latin Verse?

1799 R. Heron New Gen. Hist. Scotl. V. v. 230 This species of satire..was exalted by the genius of the great Cervantes..which occasioned Cervantes to be regarded as the original exploder of the romantic manners, and the wild dreams of knight-errantry.

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. p. xxx Sir Thomas Brown, that industrious exploder of vulgar errors.

1832 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. 10 Nov. (1835) I. 214 Our modern exploders of old fallacies have not yet made up their minds whether such a person as Homer ever lived.

1863 J. Brown John Leech & Other Papers (1882) 320 Mighty expiscators and exploders of myths.

1924 Re-ly-on Bottler Oct. 7/1 The exploder of the theory that drinking at meals is harmful is Dr. Fisk, medical director of the Life Extension Institute.

1936 M. Muggeridge Earnest Atheist p. viii He [sc. Samuel Butler] was presented by his many admirers as the first great exploder of Victorian hypocrisy.

1974 Skiing Dec. 6/1 There is a new ski study that I believe will take its place alongside earlier classics as an exploder of popular myths.

2007 W. Stadiem & M. Gibbs Everybody eats There 119 The manager, the Bavarian Werner Küchler, is..a one-man exploder of the myth that Germans have no charm.

1791 J. Barber Brit. Patent 1833 (1855) 3 An admixture of the two airs..will take fire on application of a match or candle to the mouth of the exploder, and rush out with great rapidity in one continued stream of fire.

1825 Chemist 8 Jan. 244/1 The Professor then admitted into the exploder..equal volumes of hydrogen and chlorine, and on applying an electric spark they united with a flash of light.

1963 J. B. Hersey in M. N. Hill Sea III. iv. 52 The Field Research Laboratory..has developed a gas exploder in the form of a vertical shock tube with one end under water.

2009 Jrnl. Hazardous Materials 166 842 The explosion characteristics of chlorine dioxide gas have been studied..in a cylindrical exploder.

1810 Theophilanthropist Mar. 112 By Fulton's hand the dread Exploder [sc. a torpedo] hurl'd, Secures from pirate power an injured world.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 238 Things of wood and iron, called guns. Pocket volcanoes would be a fitter title, or portable exploders—for no one can possibly expect anything but destruction who uses such compounds of dangerous contrivances.

1988 J. E. Schuetz & K. H. Snedaker Communication & Litigation i. 10 Because Hinckley had purchased a half dozen guns and exploder bullets legally, the event raised questions about the sale of guns and ammunition.

1820 Observer 19 Nov. The bombardiers, pistol-firers, pop-gunners, and squib-exploders, were..fined 20s. each.

1884 A. E. Hake Story Chinese Gordon x. 254 Firing a gun 150 yards off with a magnetic exploder.

1927 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 11 Mar. 11/2 The exploder was attached to the dynamite.

1957 New Scientist 12 Sept. 8/1 Some co-operation between the bomb exploder and the seismologists is necessary to provide the exact instant of detonation.

2008 A. M. Michael et al. Water Wells & Pumps iii. 128 Electric exploders, have almost replaced safety fuses in well-deepening operations.