relator

Definitions

1. One who relates, or tells; a relater or narrator.
2. One who relates, associates, or links things together.
3. A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.
4. An expression of the identity element of a group as a product of generators, used in a presentation (type of specification) of the group.

Equivalents

Examples

“1655, Thomas Fuller, Church-history of Britain, 1845, J. S. Brewer (editor), Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, Volume 1, page 54, He needs almost a miraculous faith to be able to remove⟳ mountains, yea, to make⟳ the sun stand⟳ still, and sometimes to go back, who will undertake⟳ to accord the contradictions in time and place⟳ between the several relators of this history.”

“Glentworth listened to Isabella's account of her interview with intense interest⟳, though he endeavoured, for the relator's sake, to suppress its warmer expression; but he could not forbear to ask⟳ many questions, drawing out, more than once, every word uttered by Margarita, and spoken by Isabella...”

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