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Quotation dates: 1554-1671
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Examinatour, n. Also: exeminatour, exemenatour. [e.m.E. examinator (1621), L. exāminātor.] An examiner. 1554 Dundee B. Laws 333.
Thir ar the nems of the assessors and examinators to be wyth the said dekyne in tymes of examinationes 1563 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts I. Pref. 17.
In presens of the lordis exeminatouris undirwrittyn 1564 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts V. Pref. ix.
The quhilk day, in presens of the lordis examinatouris underwrittin … comperit personalie Maister Henry Gibsone, notar 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 13.
Thay sal ansuer priuatly to iiij examinatouris, deput be the vniversite 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 234.
Thair salbe quarterlie … ane exemenatioun of certane of the scholleris at the discretioun of the maisteris and exemenatouris 1599 Acts IV. 189/2.
The rectour, the vice chancellar [etc.] … salbe the ordinar examinatouris 1622-6 Bisset I. 201/26.
The lord examinatour quha heiris the witnese examinate 1671 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III. 285.
He … confessed before the examinatours that some of the rebells … did take the petitioner alongst with them
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