[a. med.L. agent-n. from quālificāre to QUALIFY.] One of a board of theologians attached to the Holy Office, who report on the character (heretical or otherwise) of propositions submitted to them. Cf. QUALIFIER 3.
1688. Burnet, Lett. St. Italy, 20. One of the Qualificators of the Inquisition.
1736. Chandler, Hist. Persec., 178. The decision in such affairs belongs to the Divines, who are thence called Qualificators.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XX. 76. The whole … is then transferred by the Inquisitors to Theologians, Qualificators of the Holy Office.
