assayer

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What has long been needed is a global Bureau of Mystical Standards, or at least an impartial Spiritual Assayer who is thoroughly trained in both Eastern and Western traditions and values.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prof. Booth, U. S. Assayer, as well as other distinguished authorities, have, after thorough experiment, given to the company certificates of the great richness of the ores already shipped to the east.

From Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona by Mowry, Sylvester

The Text-book now offered to the public has been prepared to meet the existing want of a practical "handy book" for the Assayer.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

Assayer: Item, an assayer, for we are in much need of one.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

In the Bureau of the Mint: Assayer, examiner, computer of bullion, and adjuster of accounts.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)