This is one of the two principle posts involved in the process of elevating a wayfarer to sainthood, the other being the _promotor_. Both are appointed to oversee a particular would-be saint's cause. The job of the promotor is to gather evidence in favor of the person's holiness, while the scrutinizer's job is to attempt to refute the claims put forward by the promotor.

The word is the source of some amusement to humans learning Commonthroat, as the root word sJHq literally means _to nuzzle_. It refers to the act of smelling a small object while brushing it against the whiskers to gain olfactory and tactile information about it. sJHq has a secondary meaning of _to examine closely_, which is the origin of the word above.