A person conducting a judicial or academic examination.This examinant asked the child how she came by this nail....
He would be incensed at having been entrapped by an ignorant enthusiastic declaimer into an admiration of objects whose authenticity may be questioned by the first cool examinant.
Boile hath confessed to this examinant and others that he had in Connaught 360 plough-lands and thirty-eight parsonages.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin examinant- 'weighing, testing', from the verb examinare(see examine).