[f. UNFOLD v.1] One who, or that which, unfolds, in various senses of the word.
1611. Cotgr., Expliqueur, an explicator, vnfolder, explainer.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 240. Himself was an accurate unfolder of truth.
1728. Theobald, Double Falsehood, I. ii. Is your Father yet moved in the Suit, who must be the prime Unfolder of this Business?
1797. Monthly Mag., III. 264. Both copyists and unfolders [of papyrus rolls] are injudiciously paid by the month.
1845. Trench, Huls. Lect., vii. 115. The unfolder of all the nobler and higher life of the world.
1871. Macduff, Mem. Patmos, ix. 119. The sudden appearance … of the Unfolder of the roll.
