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a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.

One who interprets erroneously.

An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]

To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit. [Obs.] Interpreters . . . will not consent it to be a true story. Milton.

An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

age; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.

One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner. Jer. Taylor.

To act as an interpreter. Shak.

The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

An interpreter. [Obs.] Coke.

One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble. And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife. Milton.

An interpreter of dreams. Bp. Warburton. Addison.

An interpreter; a spokesman. [R.] Ex. vii. 1.

An interpreter. See Dragoman. [Obs.] And after, by the tongue, Her truchman, she reports the mind's each throw. B. Jonson.

ld as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel. Locke.