† ˈopinator Obs.
[a. L. opīnātor, agent-n. from opīnārī to opine.]
One who opines or holds an opinion; a thinker; a theorist.
| 1626 Laud Wks. (1847) I. 143 If they had not been opinators..that God could never have maintained His cause against them. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 228 Banded up and downe, by different Opinators many wayes. 1663 Blair Autobiog. vi. (1848) 86 Mr. Freeman, a strong opinator. 1696 Lorimer Goodwin's Disc. iv. 10, I will..only ask him..Whether he holds that God is an Opinator, that he hath an Opinion of things, and knows them opinatively? |