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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LITERATOR

n.[L.] A petty schoolmaster.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LITERATOR

Lit "er *a `tor, n. Etym: [L. litterator, literator. See Letter. ]

 

1. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke.

 

2. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter " bibliomane, " simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.

 

3. A learned person; a literatus. Sir W. Hamilton.