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literator|ˈlɪtəreɪtə(r)|
[a. L. lit(t)erātor (1) a teacher of ABC, (2) a grammarian, critic, (3) a smatterer, a sciolist; f. littera letter. Cf. F. littérateur.]
†1. A pretender to learning, a sciolist. Obs.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory, Apol. (1869) p. xcv, Theise Puritanicall Christians will admit of any Church-Mountebanke, any Literator, soe hee can shew him selfe seditious enough. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 457 Gregory Martin, a Literator, who brawles against us for using sometime the word Congregation for the Church.
2. A literary man; = littérateur.
1791Burke Let. to Member Nat. Assembly Wks. VI. 36 [French] preceptors..a set of pert petulant literators, to whom..they assign the brilliant part of men of wit and pleasure. 1812Brenan's Milesian Mag. July 87 A history of Ireland..is about to be published by that illustrious literator Jack Squintum [Jn. Lawless: pub. 1814]. 1817Ticknor Lett. & Jrnls. (1876) I. 128 He..asked me with the eagerness of a hardened literator, whether [etc.]. 1829Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1853 I. 385/1 They are lawyers, literators, metaphysicians. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 902 Hume, even as a litterator, was every way superior to the bishop. 1849Thirlwall Lett. (1881) 196 On the metaphysicians and literators I do not suppose that it would produce the slightest impression. 1872Swinburne Under Microscope 58 The men really and naturally dear to them [English reviewers] are the literators of Boston. 1878Browning Poets Croisic lxxxi, Literators trudging up to knock At Fame's exalted temple-door. 1890Athenæum 11 Jan. 44/2 No array of circumstances can transmute the born ‘literator’ into a mere man of action. 1900Pall Mall G. 5 Dec., Mr. Gibb is no mere Orientalist; he is also preeminently a literator.
3.
†a. A bibliographer (obs.).
b. One who concerns himself with verbal and textual criticism. rare.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Book, The history of a book is either of its contents..or of its appendages and accidents, which is the more immediate province of those called literators, and bibliothecarians. 1826De Quincey Lessing's Laocoon in Blackw. Mag. XX. 733 It is impossible from the slight notices of this drama [the Laocoon of Sophocles] in the old literators to come to any conclusion about the way in which it was treated. 1858― R. Bentley Wks. VII. 102 The philological researches of the Greek and Latin literator.
4. nonce use. (See quot.)
1785J. Trusler Mod. Times III. 166 Lord W. wished to appoint me his literator, which office was to cull out the pith of every new publication, and retail it to him at breakfast. |