hierogrammatist
English
Etymology
Compare French hiérogrammatiste.
Noun
hierogrammatist (plural hierogrammatists)
- A writer of hierograms
- One skilled in hieroglyphics.
- 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:
- […] the other us’d only by Priests, Prophets, Hierogrammatists or Holy Writers
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References
- hierogrammatist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913