英和和英

名詞

discerptor (複数形 discerptors)

1. (formal, まれに) 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