hierogrammatist
English
editEtymology
editCompare French hiérogrammatiste.
Noun
edithierogrammatist (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
References
edit- “hierogrammatist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.