English edit

Etymology edit

Latin: compare French dissertateur.

Noun edit

dissertator (plural dissertators)

  1. One who writes a dissertation; one who discourses.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Boyle to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dissertator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)