Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who scrutinizes; a close examiner or inquirer; a scrutineer.
- n. In old English law, a bailiff appointed to protect the king's water-rights, as flotsam, jetsam, and wrecks; also, a public officer with like duties.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who scrutinizes or investigates.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who scrutinizes; a close examiner or inquirer.
Examples
“She found Hilary contemplating her as if she was the subject and he the scrutator.”
“In the rest of his book Durandus follows Paschasius, whom he somewhat emphatically styles Divini sacramenti scrutator diligentissimus discussorque catholicus, and from whom he borrows both his patristic apparatus and his theological views.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“The larva of Calosoma (C. calidum, Fig. 220; _a_, the beetle; and Fig. 219, C. scrutator) ascends trees to feed on caterpillars, such as the Canker worm.”
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
“Something like "heaven forgive me" was in Clara's mind, though she would have declared herself innocent before the scrutator.”
“Cujus haec culpa, tu scrutator aliunde; mea est, si nescis.”
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scrutator’.
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Mundane Transformers
Bore that meets the eye.
potamogeton, testator, scrutator, isolator, confiteor, deflator, qwerty, susceptor, champertor, preemptor, disinfector, infractor and 91 more...
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phrontistery-s
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syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
Tweets
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whichbe An evil Decepticon who transforms into an interrogator's lamp. Oct 28, 2008
reesetee That's what I was wondering. Sep 27, 2007
colleen Would that be "SCREW-ta-tor" or "screw-TATER"? Sep 27, 2007
reesetee It sounds like something rather different than that.... ;-) Sep 27, 2007