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Historiographer

Historiographer \His*to`ri*og"ra*pher\ (h[i^]s*t[=o]`r[i^]*[o^]g"r[.a]*f[~e]r), n. [L. historiographus, Gr. "istoriogra`fos; "istori`a history + gra`fein 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.

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historiographer

n. a scholar who studies historiography

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historiographer

n. a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it [syn: historian]

Usage examples of "historiographer".

Bertholet, the historiographer of the Canary Islands, to conclude that the first inhabitants of the Canaries and those of the great West were one in race.

The new culture, that vast planar despotism called by historiographers the Bureaucratic State, did not think that way.

More trumpeters came next, splitting the ear with vehement outcries, and then several big brains, special correspondents one might well call them, or historiographers, charged with the task of observing and remembering every detail of this epoch-making interview.

Until the first quarter of the present century very little was known about the mythology of Canaan except fragments of tradition preserved in the writings of late Greek historiographers, such as Philo of Byblos.