Definition of "examinant"

examinant

/ɪɡˈzæmɪnənt/

noun
plural examinants
1. (obsolete) One who examines; an examiner.
  Quotations
  “No matter, I want to hear you describe it, ” said the examinant.
  1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company
2. (obsolete) One who is to be examined.
  Quotations
  the Examinants appear before them, in classes of ſix at a time, and each class shall be examined […]
  February 5 1722, Humphrey Prideaux, Articles for the Reformation of the two Universities