biographern.

Brit.

/bʌɪˈɒɡrəfə/, U.S.

/ˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfər/

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: bio- comb. form, -grapher comb. form.

Etymology: Apparently < bio- comb. form + -grapher comb. form, after post-classical Latin biographia biography n. Compare post-classical Latin biographus (beginning of the 18th cent. or earlier). Compare biographist n., and later biographical adj., biography n.

A writer of biography, esp. the author of a biography of a particular person. Occasionally in figurative or extended use.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > biographer

life-writer1611

biographer1644

biographista1661

biologist1686

memorialist1711

Boswell1857

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 82 The Hand according to the primitive intention of Nature, having by a necessary consent of Nations beene ever chosen Chronologer of al remarkable actions, hath consequently proved its own Biographer.

1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 52 I have omitted..the several Martyrologists, Menologists, and Biographers of those times.

1715 J. Addison Freeholder No. 35 (1751) 209 Grub-street Biographers..watch for the Death of a great Man.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson I. 2 I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this, with more advantages.

1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis p. i He would be a local biographer.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. viii. 444 The seven or eight contemporary biographers of Becket.

1906 Studio Summer (Special Issue) a. p. iii Rudolf [von Alt] was the leader of the Viennese ‘Veduta’ painting, the true biographer of Vienna.

1929 C. Carswell Let. 19 July in Lying Awake (1950) 192 Not one other biographer has taken the trouble to grapple afresh with the existing evidence.

2006 The Word July 91/1 In 1998 he sacked his ‘official’ biographer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	biographer
释义	biographern. Brit. /bʌɪˈɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /ˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfər/ Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: bio- comb. form, -grapher comb. form. Etymology: Apparently < bio- comb. form + -grapher comb. form, after post-classical Latin biographia biography n. Compare post-classical Latin biographus (beginning of the 18th cent. or earlier). Compare biographist n., and later biographical adj., biography n. A writer of biography, esp. the author of a biography of a particular person. Occasionally in figurative or extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > biographer life-writer1611 biographer1644 biographista1661 biologist1686 memorialist1711 Boswell1857 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 82 The Hand according to the primitive intention of Nature, having by a necessary consent of Nations beene ever chosen Chronologer of al remarkable actions, hath consequently proved its own Biographer. 1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 52 I have omitted..the several Martyrologists, Menologists, and Biographers of those times. 1715 J. Addison Freeholder No. 35 (1751) 209 Grub-street Biographers..watch for the Death of a great Man. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson I. 2 I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this, with more advantages. 1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis p. i He would be a local biographer. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. viii. 444 The seven or eight contemporary biographers of Becket. 1906 Studio Summer (Special Issue) a. p. iii Rudolf [von Alt] was the leader of the Viennese ‘Veduta’ painting, the true biographer of Vienna. 1929 C. Carswell Let. 19 July in Lying Awake (1950) 192 Not one other biographer has taken the trouble to grapple afresh with the existing evidence. 2006 The Word July 91/1 In 1998 he sacked his ‘official’ biographer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1644
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