nomenclator
Americannoun
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a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier.
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Archaic. a person who calls or announces things or persons by their names.
noun
Etymology
Origin of nomenclator
1555–65; < Latin nōmenclātor, variant of nōmenculātor one who announces names, equivalent to nōmen name + -culātor, variant of calātor a crier ( calā ( re ) to call + -tor -tor )
Example Sentences
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A letter from George Digby, the Second Earl of Bristol, on behalf of Charles I, reports on the progress of rebel forces under Oliver Cromwell using a set of substitutions known as a nomenclator.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015
The philosophical tribe of naturalists, for so they are called by themselves and their admirers, do not therefore depreciate Linnæus when they call him a nomenclator.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
A door on the left admits to two rooms occupied by the nomenclator, Mr. Pender, and two assistant clerks, who comprise the staff.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Their nomenclator cleared a way for them to the litter and they sat down again, facing each other, the emperor and the boy.
From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Irving Bacheller
This explains the extreme penury of history outside the dry descriptions of the nomenclator.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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