Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HIS-TO-RI-OG'RA-PHER
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HIS-TO-RI-OG'RA-PHER, n. [Gr. ἱστορια, history, and γραφω, to write.]
A historian; a writer of history; particularly, a professed historian; an officer employed to write the history of a prince or state; as, the historiographer of his Britannic majesty.
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