† interpretatorn.
Obsolete.
An interpreter.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [noun] > interpreter
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interpretator?a1475
truchman1485
spokesman1519
interpreter1531
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decipherer1587
trenchman1632
linguistera1649
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hermeneutist1836
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?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 397 Austyn did londe in..Kente..with..certayne interpretators taken from Fraunce.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 419 Aylon, of the tribe of Zabulon..whom the lxxti interpretatores do not annumerate.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 12 Henry Golde toke vpon him to be interpretatour thereof.
1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) i. i. ii. vii. 24 Those imaginarie Dreames..of which, Artemidorus, Cardanus, and Sambucus, with their severall Interpretators [1624–32 Interpretations], haue written great volumes.
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