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illustrator|ˈɪləstreɪtə(r)|
[Agent-n. in L. form f. illustrate v. Cf. late L. illustrātor (Lactantius); F. illustrateur (15th c. in Godef.).]
One who or that which illustrates, in the various senses of the vb.; one who gives or draws illustrations; the artist who illustrates a book or periodical.
1598Florio, Illustratore, an illustrator, a glorifier, a giuer of honors. c1611Chapman Homer's Iliads Sonn. Gg v b, The right graciovs Illustrator of vertue..the Earle of Montgomrie. 1632Burton Anat. Mel. (ed. 4) iii. ii. v. v. 585 Leonitius his illustrator Garceus. 1689–90in Wood's Life 30 Jan. (O.H.S.) III. 323 ‘An illustrator’, or ‘picturer of great letters in books’. 1812W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXVIII. 499 From Herodotus and his illustrators. 1834E. W. Brayley (title) Graphic and Historical Illustrator of the Popular Superstitions and Customs of Wales. 1870Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 439 You please me with what you say of my new illustrator. 1879J. C. Brown Ethics Geo. Eliot 114 She stands out as the deepest, broadest, and most catholic illustrator of the true ethics of Christianity. |