discerptor
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈsɜːp.tə/
Noun
discerptor (plural discerptors)
- (formal, rare) A person who pulls something apart; a person who divides or separates.
- post 1750, Emanuel Swedenborg, unknown translator, Arcana Cœlestia (Latin), volume 2, published 1750.
- The discerptors said they are so delighted to punish that they are not willing to desist, even should it go on to eternity.
- 1904, W.T.B., “Zoological Nomenclature”, in Nature, volume 69, page 464-5:
- Moreover, if the type be worked out historically, "lectularius" is equally invalid; the first discerptor was Fabricius, who, in a perfectly straightforward manner, removed our species from Cimex to form a part of his new genus Acanthia
- 1959, Douglas Young, "Miltonic Light on Professor Denys Page's Homeric Theory", Greece & Rome, volume 6, number 1, pages 96-108)
- If, at some remote future period, the discerptors of Milton should exhaust the resources of post-Wolfian Homeric theorizing, they may still find a fresh ruse or two in the tactical manuals of the Baconian assailants […]
- post 1750, Emanuel Swedenborg, unknown translator, Arcana Cœlestia (Latin), volume 2, published 1750.
Anagrams
- descriptor, predictors