logographern.
/lɒˈɡɒɡrəfə/, /ləˈɡɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /loʊˈɡɑɡrəfər/ΚΠ
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Logographers, Lawyers Clerks, they that write Pleas and Causes in the Law or Books of Accompt.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.)
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Logographer, an Accomptant or Writer of Books of Accompts.
2. Ancient Greek History. A writer of traditional history in prose.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > historian
historian?a1439
historierc1449
storierc1449
story writer?c1475
histographera1513
historician1531
historiographer1542
historic1599
historianess1683
memorialist1711
logographer1846
logograph1862
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. iv. 117 The adventures which the ancient poets, epic, lyric, and tragic, and the logographers after them, connect with the name of the Argeian Iô.
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) viii. 265 Pherecydes, an Athenian logographer of the fifth century before Christ.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 37 Like the early logographers, turning Homer into prose.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 634/1 Hellanicus, the most important of the Greek logographers.
3. Ancient Greek History. A professional speech-writer.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > speech-writer
logographer1853
1853 G. Grote Hist. Greece XI. ii. lxxxvii. 380 Before he [Demosthenes] acquired reputation as a public adviser, he was already known as a logographer, or composer of discourses to be delivered either by speakers in the public assembly or by litigants in the Dikastery.
1881 Q. Rev. Oct. 531 The plain man, intending to go to law, addressed himself to a professional speech-writer, or ‘logographer’.
4. One who practises or is skilled in logography.
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1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Smyth).
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