单词 | scrutator |
释义 | scrutatorn. 1. One who examines or investigates. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > inspector or scrutinizer scanner1557 inspectator1593 scrutator1593 inspector1667 scrutinizer1728 1593 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Middlesex i. 10 Master Camden, a singuler scrutator of antiquities. 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 452 The very disquisition concerning any one part of the Brain, the Eye, the Nerves, the Blood hath perplexed the most exact Scrutators. 1822 Q. Rev. 28 188 He threw down the gauntlet of defiance to the learned scrutators into the hidden mysteries of hieroglyphical lore. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist III. ix. 198 She would have declared herself innocent before the scrutator. 2. a. 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. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > election officials scrutator1618 scrutineer1682 scrutinator1691 returning officer1728 presiding officer1745 viander1751 warden1763 poll clerk1783 canvasser1792 polling clerk1833 tally-clerk1890 1618 J. Hales Let. 28 Nov. 2 in Golden Remains (1659) The manner of election was by Scrutiny... The Scrutators were two of the Seculars,..these calculated the voices and pronounced the election. 1734–5 Act 8 Geo. II c. 6 §4 The justices of the peace..shall be scrutators of the ballot. 1908 Athenæum 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 historical. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > other officials non-regentc1447 taxer1532 subprincipal1562 scrutator1580 Master of Glomerya1591 orator1592 schoolkeeper?c1601 curator1612 subwarden1622 outrider1664 curator1669 domus1759 taxator1831 fetcher1890 1580 E. Grindal Let. in J. Strype Hist. E. Grindal (1710) 251 The said Mr. Barrow..alledgeth another [university] Statute, made by Grace,..concerning the Scrutators. 1665 J. Buck in G. Peacock Stat. Cambridge App. B, p. lv The Scrutators also doe..give over their office by delivery of their keys to the V. Ch. 1793 Acct. Proc. Univ. Cambr. against W. Frend 195 The statutes which relate to the duty of scrutators and moderators on passing graces. 1831 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. June 407 (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. 1835 Rep. 25 Nov. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 117 The Vicechancellor, Proctors, and Scrutators, examine the votes received. 1841 G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1580 |
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