literatorn.

Brit.

/ˈlɪtəˌreɪtə/, U.S.

/ˈlɪdəˌreɪdər/

Forms: 1600s– literator, 1800s litterator.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin litterātor, literātor.

Etymology: < classical Latin litterātor (also literātor) schoolteacher, frequently used disparagingly, in post-classical Latin also writer, author (a1536 in Erasmus) < littera letter n.¹ + -tor , suffix forming agent nouns (see -or suffix). With sense 2 compare later littérateur n.

1. A person who claims erudition without adequate grounds, or with intent to deceive; a superficial pretender to learning. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun] > person of superficial knowledge

smatterer1519

grammatola1529

sciolus1607

morosophist1610

sciolist1612

groll1637

literatora1641

superficialista1691

morosoph1693

short-thinker1711

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 457 Gregory Martin, a Literator, who brawles against us for using sometime the word Congregation for the Church.

?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xxxvii Theise Puritanicall Christians will admit of any Church-Mountebanke, any Literator, soe hee can shew him selfe seditious enough.

1771 tr. J. D. Michaelis Diss. Infl. Opinions Lang. (ed. 2) v. 42 These definitions and these names differ still more from one another than the country names. Every literator has a right of changing them at his pleasure, and to secure this precious right, never fails making use of it as often as he can.

1857 A. G. de Gurowski Amer. & Europe xi. 344 The highest aim of literators is..to remain within the boundaries traced by those whom they recognize as their masters, to win their approbation.

1903 L. H. Bailey Nature-study Idea iii. 157 Too early in the school life do we begin to make pupils mere..literators.

2. A person engaged in literary pursuits; a writer; = littérateur n. Now rare.Common in the 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man

scholarc1600

man of letters1645

literator1710

literarian1740

literary gent1773

literary1801

littérateur1806

1710 C. Mather Nehemiah 23 All the Learning, and Vigour and Style, which could have been Expected from a Literator, in the very Meridian of all his Glory.

1777 J. Ingenhousz Let. 14 Dec. in B. Franklin Papers (1986) XXV. 287 (note) I am now at Delpht with my old friend and instructor Mr. Henricus Hoogeveen, one of the greatest literators of our age.

1817 G. Ticknor Life, Lett. & Jrnls. (1876) I. 128 He..asked me with the eagerness of a hardened literator, whether [etc.].

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 902 Hume, even as a litterator, was every way superior to the bishop.

1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic lxxxi, in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 139 Literators trudging up to knock At Fame's exalted temple-door.

1890 Athenæum 11 Jan. 44/2 No array of circumstances can transmute the born ‘literator’ into a mere man of action.

1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Dec. Mr. Gibb is no mere Orientalist; he is also preeminently a literator.

1999 A. Jackson Ireland 1798–1998 (2002) iv. 108 The basis for this brief popular expansion had been laid..by the eloquent propagandizing of Fenian journalists and literators.

a. A person concerned with textual criticism, commentary, and analysis. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > textual critic

literator1725

lower critic1859

1725 C. Mather El-Shaddai Ep. Ded. 3 A great French Literator, has newly demonstrated, That the Neginoth, and the Nehiloth, and the Alamoth, in the Titles of several Psalms, are no other than Various Bands of these Female-Musicians.

1826 T. De Quincey Gallery German Prose Classics: Lessing in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 733 It is impossible from the slight notices of this drama [sc. the Laocoon of Sophocles] in the old literators to come to any conclusion about the way in which it was treated.

1858 T. De Quincey R. Bentley in Wks. VII. 102 The philological researches of the Greek and Latin literator.

1991 A. H. Snyman in P. J. Hartin & A. J. Petzer Text & Interpr. 87 By the time this altered scholarly perspective made itself felt in the field of New Testament studies, there were various text-immanent approaches in circulation among linguists and literators.

†b. A bibliographer. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > bibliography > [noun] > bibliographer

literator1738

bibliographer1810

bibliograph1815

bibliognost1823

bibliologist1838

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at 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.

†4. A person who summarizes or précises a text. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging > one who

abbreviator1529

abridger1555

summarist1577

summister1577

summulary1580

summer-up1599

summist1602

breviate-maker1611

epitomist1611

epitomizer1615

barber1616

breviarist1621

epitomator1621

summulist1635

abbreviarist1679

breviator1679

compendiarist1679

compendiator1679

curtailer1724

literator1785

summarizer1861

condenser1868

trimmer1876

1785 J. 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.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	literator
释义	literatorn. Brit. /ˈlɪtəˌreɪtə/, U.S. /ˈlɪdəˌreɪdər/ Forms: 1600s– literator, 1800s litterator. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin litterātor, literātor. Etymology: < classical Latin litterātor (also literātor) schoolteacher, frequently used disparagingly, in post-classical Latin also writer, author (a1536 in Erasmus) < littera letter n.¹ + -tor , suffix forming agent nouns (see -or suffix). With sense 2 compare later littérateur n. 1. A person who claims erudition without adequate grounds, or with intent to deceive; a superficial pretender to learning. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun] > person of superficial knowledge smatterer1519 grammatola1529 sciolus1607 morosophist1610 sciolist1612 groll1637 literatora1641 superficialista1691 morosoph1693 short-thinker1711 a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 457 Gregory Martin, a Literator, who brawles against us for using sometime the word Congregation for the Church. ?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xxxvii Theise Puritanicall Christians will admit of any Church-Mountebanke, any Literator, soe hee can shew him selfe seditious enough. 1771 tr. J. D. Michaelis Diss. Infl. Opinions Lang. (ed. 2) v. 42 These definitions and these names differ still more from one another than the country names. Every literator has a right of changing them at his pleasure, and to secure this precious right, never fails making use of it as often as he can. 1857 A. G. de Gurowski Amer. & Europe xi. 344 The highest aim of literators is..to remain within the boundaries traced by those whom they recognize as their masters, to win their approbation. 1903 L. H. Bailey Nature-study Idea iii. 157 Too early in the school life do we begin to make pupils mere..literators. 2. A person engaged in literary pursuits; a writer; = littérateur n. Now rare.Common in the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man scholarc1600 man of letters1645 literator1710 literarian1740 literary gent1773 literary1801 littérateur1806 1710 C. Mather Nehemiah 23 All the Learning, and Vigour and Style, which could have been Expected from a Literator, in the very Meridian of all his Glory. 1777 J. Ingenhousz Let. 14 Dec. in B. Franklin Papers (1986) XXV. 287 (note) I am now at Delpht with my old friend and instructor Mr. Henricus Hoogeveen, one of the greatest literators of our age. 1817 G. Ticknor Life, Lett. & Jrnls. (1876) I. 128 He..asked me with the eagerness of a hardened literator, whether [etc.]. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 902 Hume, even as a litterator, was every way superior to the bishop. 1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic lxxxi, in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 139 Literators trudging up to knock At Fame's exalted temple-door. 1890 Athenæum 11 Jan. 44/2 No array of circumstances can transmute the born ‘literator’ into a mere man of action. 1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Dec. Mr. Gibb is no mere Orientalist; he is also preeminently a literator. 1999 A. Jackson Ireland 1798–1998 (2002) iv. 108 The basis for this brief popular expansion had been laid..by the eloquent propagandizing of Fenian journalists and literators. 3. a. A person concerned with textual criticism, commentary, and analysis. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > textual critic literator1725 lower critic1859 1725 C. Mather El-Shaddai Ep. Ded. 3 A great French Literator, has newly demonstrated, That the Neginoth, and the Nehiloth, and the Alamoth, in the Titles of several Psalms, are no other than Various Bands of these Female-Musicians. 1826 T. De Quincey Gallery German Prose Classics: Lessing in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 733 It is impossible from the slight notices of this drama [sc. the Laocoon of Sophocles] in the old literators to come to any conclusion about the way in which it was treated. 1858 T. De Quincey R. Bentley in Wks. VII. 102 The philological researches of the Greek and Latin literator. 1991 A. H. Snyman in P. J. Hartin & A. J. Petzer Text & Interpr. 87 By the time this altered scholarly perspective made itself felt in the field of New Testament studies, there were various text-immanent approaches in circulation among linguists and literators. †b. A bibliographer. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliography > [noun] > bibliographer literator1738 bibliographer1810 bibliograph1815 bibliognost1823 bibliologist1838 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at 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. †4. A person who summarizes or précises a text. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging > one who abbreviator1529 abridger1555 summarist1577 summister1577 summulary1580 summer-up1599 summist1602 breviate-maker1611 epitomist1611 epitomizer1615 barber1616 breviarist1621 epitomator1621 summulist1635 abbreviarist1679 breviator1679 compendiarist1679 compendiator1679 curtailer1724 literator1785 summarizer1861 condenser1868 trimmer1876 1785 J. 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1641
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