historiaster

English

Etymology

From history +‎ -aster. Coined by William Ewart Gladstone in his review of J. Dunbar Ingram’s History of the Legislative Union of Great Britain and Ireland.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪsˌtɔːɹiˈæstə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

historiaster (plural historiasters)

1. An inferior historian. [1887]
   • 1947, Max Ludwig Wolfram Laistner, The Greater Roman Historians:

     "But this is shocking," some scientific historiaster of our own day will exclaim.