discerptor

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɪˈsɜːp.tə/

Noun

discerptor (plural discerptors)

  1. (formal, rare) A person who pulls something apart; a person who divides or separates.
    • Emanuel Swedenborg, Spiritual Diary
      Those who execute such penalties, that is, the discerptors or punishers, were near me, about my head, and took great delight in inflicting the punishment […]
    • 1959, Douglas Young, Miltonic Light on Professor Denys Page's Homeric Theory (in Greece & Rome, volume 6, number 1, pages 96-108)
      If, at some remote future period, the discerptors of Milton should exhaust the resources of post-Wolfian Homeric theorizing, they may still find a fresh ruse or two in the tactical manuals of the Baconian assailants […]

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