Inquirer
[in'kwaiərə]
Definition
(n.) One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator.
Typed by Benjamin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Searcher, investigator.
Typed by Allan
Examples
- The unfortunate inquirer staggered against a wall, a faint cry escaped her --O! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Diligent inquirer after virtue, and banisher of vice! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Sam stole a look at the inquirer. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He rushed fiercely forward, and the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Hence the schools are better adapted, as John Stuart Mill said, to make disciples than inquirers. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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