examinant

American  

[ig-zam-uh-nuhnt] / ɪgˈzæm ə nənt /

noun

1. an examiner.

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Etymology

Origin of examinant

1580–90; < Latin exāminant- (stem of exāmināns, present participle of exāmināre ) weighing, trying, examining. See examine, -ant

Example Sentences

It is, then, to the history of Adam that the critical examinant of the Atonement theory should first direct his attention.

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They were chiefly concerning the reception and profession of the brethren, the number that each examinant had seen received, their names, and as to whether the burials of the order were conducted in a clandestine manner.

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Ellis Stephens, William Rogers, and some others, where they stayed till about eleven of the clock at night, and then this examinant went thence directly to the house of John Gurrey, with the said Stephens and Rogers, who lay together in the said Gurrey's house all that night.

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He confesseth, that he did ask the said Gurrey, if he would shew this examinant where the said Stout lived; telling the said Gurrey that his name was Marshall, and asked him if he never heard of him before; and jocularly said, that he would go and see her the next morning, but doth not believe that he said any thing that any friend was even with the said Sarah Stout, or to such like effect.

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To every question proposed to him the steward shook his head; and, in spite of the threats of the examinant, and the blows of his followers, he persisted in maintaining silence.

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