searcher

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Meaning

One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.

Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.

An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.

An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.

An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.

An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.

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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King Jr.

Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men - a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God. John Tyndall

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front. Garry Shandling

Joy from truth's own glass of fire Sweetly on the searcher smiles; Lest on virtue's steeps he tire, Joy the tedious path beguiles. High on faith's bright hill before us, See her banner proudly wave! Joy, too, swells the angels' chorus,- Bursts the bondage of the grave! Friedrich Schiller

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? Seneca

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions. Madeline Kahn

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