Meaning

(dated) Synonym of explorer..

Definitions by Sense

1. (dated) Synonym of explorer.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of scout /spy.

Example Sentences

Thus did the explorators of the land of Canaan terrifie the Iewes: thus did Caleb and Ioſhua comfort their bretheren.

There is nothing ſo empty and neceſſitous as thou who imbraceſt the Univerſe, thou art the Explorator without Knowledge, the Magiſtrate without Juriſdiction; and after all, the Fool in the Play.

Camden, and Horſley explain the inſcription in this manner, Duplares Numeri Exploratorum Bremenii Aram inſtituerunt, as if certain unknown Bands of explorators erected the altar at Bremenium, that is, here at Riecheſter.

Num. Exploratorum, stationed by the Notitia at Lavatræ or Bowes; and there is a band or troop of explorators belonging to the fourth cohort of the Gauls mentioned on two inscriptions at Risingham, and a numerus of the same kind on an altar at Bremenium. […] The station of the explorators on the western limit of the empire in Africa was “Exploratio at Mercurios,” about 200 miles south of Tingi, or Tangiers.

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