scrutator

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scrutator

(skruːˈteɪtə)
n
a person who examines or scrutinizes
[from Latin, from scrūtārī to search]
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The fact that access to the infernal regions was obtained by a lake is believed by the learned Marcus Ansello Scrutator to have suggested the Christian rite of baptism by immersion.
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For example, the fiery searcher (Calosoma scrutator) is an efficient pest eradicator and it's beautiful to boot.
The anonymous author of the pamphlet, who called himself 'Scrutator', claimed that Vaughan's recent begging letters for the completion of St Mary's Cathedral had been both irregular and uncanonical, and had afforded him opportunities to plot and interfere in the affairs of sees other than his own as the 'agent of Propaganda in Australia'.
'Scrutator' neatly captured the difficulties it faced:
Sent to South Africa for the Morning Leader, Robertson sent regular reports home under the nom de plume SCRUTATOR. He was one of the first to alert domestic opinion to the indiscriminate burning of farms as a military tactic (a theme to be reiterated in Emily Hobhouse's book The Brunt of War).
The evidence that theologians had only a consultative and not a deliberative voice is found in the sermon for the second session of Zaccaria Ferreri, who was the council's secretary and a scrutator of votes (ibid.
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