examiner, questioner, torturer, gaoler
examiner, questioner, torturer, Antipho 5.32, D. 37.40, Plu. Vitios. 2.498d; gaoler, Ev.Matt. 18.34.
II one who tests, examiner
one who tests, Them. Or. 21.247c:—fem. βᾰσᾰν-ίστρια, examiner, ἐπῶν Ar. Ra. 826.
The corpus record
βᾰσᾰν-ιστής
basanistes · ὁ
examiner, questioner, torturer
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Where it lives
- Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- βασανισταῖς · basanistais New Testament, Matthew 18.34 (DIORISIS sentence 762)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.