Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An examiner.
- noun In law, one who turns king's (queen's) evidence; an approver.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An examiner; an approver.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
examiner ; anapprover . - noun law, UK, obsolete One who, when
indicted forcrime ,confessed it andaccused hisaccomplices in order to obtainpardon .
Etymologies
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Latin
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Examples
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The title was "Gallia Christiana, qua series omnia archiepiscoporum, episcoporum et abbatum Franciæ vicinarumque ditionum ab origine ecclesiarum ad nostra tempora per quattor tomos deducitur, et probator ex antiquæ fidei manuscriptis Vaticani, regnum, principum tabulariis omnium Galliæ cathedralium et abbatarium".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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