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Interpretour(e, -itoure, n. Also: -etowr, -etur. [ME. -etour (Wycl.), -etowre (c 1440), also enterpretor, -our (c 1400).] An interpreter. — c1420 Wynt. i. 1735.
To this discordand are The sewynty wys interpretowrys c1515 Asl. MS. I. 323/19.
In this age was lxxij interpretouris, that is to say expositouris of Hebrewe, Grewe & Latyne 1513 Doug. iii. vi. 7.
O gentil Troiane, dyvyne interpretur, Quhilk the respons of Phebus hes in cur[e] Ib. x. iv. 31.
Of goddis eik and men interpretur [R.-pretoure] 1533 Bell. Livy I. 61/12.
Horaciane, be authorite of king Tullus interpretoure of thir lawis 1533 Boece ii. v. 64 b.
Ane vertwus man, cunnyng in litteratour, quham he callit the interpretour of the lawis