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viator en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/ (General-American)
• /vaɪˈeɪ.tɔɹ/ (General-American)
• /vʌɪˈeɪtə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin viātor (“traveler”).

Meanings

1. (rare) A wayfarer, traveler.
   • After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe. 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
   • ... theological virtues and of the whole supernatural life in God on account of sanctifying grace. Aquinas understands the viator in the state of grace in […] 2019, Reinhard Hütter, Bound for Beatitude A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 39:
   • [The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress. , University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press, page 25
2. (historical, rare) An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.
   • The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest. 1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198:
3. A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.
   • […] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […] 2016, Howard M. Friedman, Anderson's Ohio Annotated Securities Law Handbook, 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, →ISBN:
   • Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […] 2020, Deborah Bouchoux, Christine Sgarlata Chung, Business Organizations Law in Focus, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 711:

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