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literatist|ˈlɪtərətɪst| [f. literate + -ist.] One engaged in literary pursuits; a writer, author.
1660Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 469 He was not ashamed, as our Universities Literatists are at this day, to learn of Women. 1830‘Jon Bee’ Ess. in Dram. Wks. S. Foote I. p. xxix, Indeed they are never the most elegant literatists who study longest, at college, the jargon of the schools. 1866F. Harper Peace thro. Truth Ser. i. 135 It would..seem as though the greater number of our modern literatists were a sort of inferior caste in English civilization. |