verificator

English

Noun

verificator (plural verificators)

1. Synonym of verifier.
   • 1785, [Jacques] Necker, translated by Thomas Mortimer, A Treatise on the Administration of the Finances of France, volume III, London: […] [T]he Logographic Press, and sold by J[ohn] Walter, […]; J[ohn] Sewell, […]; T[homas] Longman, […], page 219:

     The inſpectors, comptrollers, verificators [translating vérificateurs], &c. ſink into the enjoyment of a vain title, when the general adminiſtration does not oblige them to be active, and it is always thoſe whoſe functions are active, neceſſary and every day repeated, who imperceptibly become abſolute maſters.

   • 1854, Henry Shelton Sanford, Memoir on the Administrative Changes in France, since the Revolution of 1848, Being a Report to the Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.: [Nathaniel] Beverley Tucker, […], page 137:

     Assay laboratory, consisting of a verificator of assay and two assayors.

   • 1856, “Reviews. Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. By Rear-Admiral W. H. Smyth, &c. &c. […]”, in The Art-Journal, new series, volume II, London: […] ([F]or the Proprietors) by George Virtue, […]; and […] New York, page 323, column 3:

     Coins, as verificators of ancient history, are now so universally esteemed that the excuses once timidly made by those who collected them, in defence of their taste, are no longer needed.

   • 1857 March 27, Burford Gibsone, “Rectification of the Circle”, in The Engineer, volume III, London: Office […], page 247:

     […] the functions of Sir W. Hamilton and myself have been simply those of verificators of the numerical calculations which “Mr. Walker” suggested to us, […]

   • 1897, Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, volume XIX, London: […] The Offices of the Society, […], page 255:

     Account of the taxations of the verificators of the entrances which are under the royal scribe, Neb nefer, in the bakehouses, to make out of them āku bread.

   • 2000, Thomas Geburek, Ferdinand Müller, “Genetic aspects of the Helsinki and Lisbon Resolutions – Second and Third Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe”, in Jozef Turok, Thomas Geburek, editors, International Collaboration on Forest Genetic Resources: The Role of Europe: Second EUFORGEN Steering Committee Meeting, 26-29 November 1998 - Vienna, Austria, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, →ISBN, page 18:

     Four indicators with their respective verificators are proposed for evaluating whether genetic sustainability has been achieved also under the warning of climatic change.

   • 2019 January 3, Tristin Hopper, “122-year-old woman was a fraud, theory says”, in National Post, volume 21, number 57, page A10:

     Zak also shows that Calment’s interviews with age verificators were replete with tiny inconsistencies, such as confusing her husband and father or saying that she was accompanied to school by a family maid who would actually have been 10 years her junior.

Related terms

• verificate
• verification
• verificatory

Latin

Verb

vērificātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of vērificō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vérificateur. Equivalent to verifica +‎ -tor.

Noun

verificator m (plural verificatori)

1. verifier

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	verificator	verificatorul		verificatori	verificatorii
genitive-dative	verificator	verificatorului		verificatori	verificatorilor
vocative	verificatorule			verificatorilor