Full record for disintegrator n.
| Definition | a disintegrating weapon |
| OED requirements | antedating 1903 |
| Earliest cite | George Griffith, The World Masters |
| Comment | Not in OED, but there is a 1929 example
under "zap" int. def. 1.
Alistair Durie submitted a 1925 cite from Nictzin Dyalhis's "When the Green Star Waned". |
| Last modified | 22 September, 2010 |
Citations for disintegrator n.
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| 1925 N. Dyalhis When Green Star Wanes in Weird Tales Apr. 6/2 | Well it was for me that, in obedience to Hul Jok's imperative command, I was holding my Blastor pointing ahead of me; for as I blundered full upon the monstrosity it upheaved its ugly bulk—how I do not know, for I saw no legs nor did it have wings—to one edge and would have flopped down upon me, but instinctively I slid forward the catch on the tiny Blastor, and the foul thing vanished—save for a few fragments of its edges—smitten into nothingness by the vibration hurled forth from that powerful little disintegrator. |