Definition of Detecter

1. n. One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.

Definition of Detecter

1. Noun. (alternative form of detector) ¹

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Definition of Detecter

1. detector [n -S] - See also: detector

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detecter

detartrating
detartration
detaxation
detect
detectabilities
detectability
detectable
detectably
detected
detecter (current term)
detecters
detecteth
detectible
detecting
detection
detection dog
detections
detective
detective agency
detective novel
detective story
detective work
detectivelike
detectives

Literary usage of Detecter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution by Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson (1859)
"... and bear thee safe To meet iu peace thine other Father,—GOD. CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE. 146. CRIME ITS OWN detecter. ..."

2. Advanced Readings and Recitations by Austin Barclay Fletcher (1881)
"CRIME ITS OWN detecter. SCHILLER. AGAINST the prisoner at the bar, as an individual, I cannot have the slightest prejudice. I would not do him the smallest ..."

3. A Treatise on Magistracy and War: Millennium, Holiness, and the by John Holdeman (1891)
"To aid men to detect counterfeit money they use a detecter; thus we have also a detecter to detect all false doctrines, and apparent moral actions and ..."

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