a member of a theological board of the Roman Catholic Church who evaluated the character of certain proposals
qualificator in American English
(ˈkwɑləfɪˌkeitər)
noun
Roman Catholic Church(in an ecclesiastical court)
an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial
Word origin
[1680–90; ‹ ML quālificātor, equiv. to quālificā(re) to qualify + L -tor-tor]This word is first recorded in the period 1680–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bull's-eye, knockdown, mob, picket, turnout-tor is a suffix found in loanwords from Latin, forming personal agent nouns from verbsand, less commonly, from nouns. Other words that use the affix -tor include: dictator, genitor, janitor, orator, victor