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Webster 1913 Edition


Historiographer

His-toˊri-og′ra-pher

(hĭs-tōˊrĭ-ŏg′rȧ-fẽr)
,
Noun.
[L.
historiographus
, Gr.
ἱστοριογράφος
;
ἱστορία
history +
γράφειν
to write: cf. F.
historiographe
.]
An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.

Webster 1828 Edition


Historiographer

HISTORIOG'RAPHER

,
Noun.
[Gr. history, and to write.] A historian; a writer of history; particularly, a professed historian; an officer employed to write the history of a prince or state; as the historiographer of his Britannic majesty.

Definition 2024


historiographer

historiographer

English

Noun

historiographer (plural historiographers)

  1. a scholar who studies historiography

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