examiner

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EXAM'INER, noun One who examines, tries or inspects; one who interrogates a witness or an offender. 1. In chancery, in Great Britain, the Examiners are two officers of that court, who examine, on oath, the witnesses for the parties.
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