1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xii. (Arb.), 179. The Greekes call him [a maner of speach] Prolepsis, we the Propounder, or the Explaner.
1643. Milton, Divorce, II. iii. (1851), 68. According to our common explainers.
1695. Motteux, St. Olon’s Morocco, 41. Their Prophet, whom they call God’s great Favorite, and the Explainer of his Will.
1860. Bagehot, Hist. Unref. Parl., 37. He [a prime minister under a parliamentary constitution] must be, if not a great orator, a great explainer.
1881. Daily News, 29 Dec., 5/2. He was the expounder and explainer of the reforms.
