probator

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noun

An examiner; an approver.

OriginLatin probātor →
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Meanings

nounprobator (plural probators)

plural probators

  1. An examiner; an approver.

    Warranted Officers, that are reckoned ancient experienced Men of the same Employments, some nominated, and appointed for Probators, as well as all from the Captains and Commissioners

    1691, Henry Maydman, Naval Speculations, AND Maritime Politicks: Being a Modest and Brief DISCOURSE OF THE Royal Navy OF ENGLAND: OF Its Oeconomy and Government, AND A Projection for an everlasting Seminary of Seamen, by a Royal Maritime Hospital.
  2. UKobsoletelawOne who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.

Origin

  1. Latinprobātor
  2. Englishprobator

From Latin probātor.

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APA

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