effector
/ɪˈfek.tə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.61 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who or that which brings about an event or result, accomplishes a purpose, etc.
noun
An actuator.
Example Sentences
- "This Sanctification, and Bleſſing the Seventh Day, was ſetting it apart as a Day of Diſtinction from the Reſt of the Week-Days, and appropriating it to Holy Uſes and Purpoſes, namely, the Commemoration of that great Work of the Creation, and paying Homage and Worſhip to that infinite Being, who was the Effector of it."
- "Yea; and I devised Numbers—high art!—and letters’ composition, / And memory, effector of all things, / And mother of the Muses: […]"
- "The Sanctifier and bright Lord who is glorious in operation, the dispositioner, the effector of all trans-substantiations, who sets the traverse wall according to the measure of the angel with the reed, who knows best how to gather his epiklesis from that open plain, who transmutes their cheerless blasphemy into a lover’s word, who spoke by Balaam and by Balaam’s ass, who spoke also by Sgt. Bullcock."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪˈfek.tə/
- British English: /ɪˈfek.tə/