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geographer|dʒiːˈɒgrəfə(r)|
Also 6 -ier.
[f. med.L. geōgraph-us (see prec.): see -er suffix1 4.]
One who is versed in, or writes upon, geography. geographer-general (cf. general a. 10).
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 203 There wer also other tounes mo then one or twain of the same name elswhere, as testifien the Geographiers. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 21 The Geographers name them Antipodes. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 190 note, Dionysius..a geographer of Corynthus. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 106, I come forth..to have a single bout with the ignorant malice of an imperious and abortive Geographer. 1668Dryden Even. Love iii. i, I am not so ill a geographer. 1733Swift Poetry 179 Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps. 1790A. Hamilton Wks. (1886) VII. 51 The surveyor-general shall also have in charge all the duties committed to the geographer-general by the resolutions and ordinances of Congress. 1827Maginn Red-nosed Lieut. in Forget-me-not 107 Soldiers are no great geographers. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 1 The general comprehensive term ‘Spain’, which is convenient for geographers and politicians, is calculated to mislead the traveller. 1872Proctor Ess. Astron. xxiii. 296 The construction of these figures..would form an instructive employment for the young geographer. |