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inscriptionist

noun

Etymology

From inscription + -ist.

  1. borrowed from īnscrīptiō
  2. suffixed as inscriptionist — “inscription + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who inscribes

    One who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.

    • The Egyptians were indeed indefatigable architects, sculptors, painters, hieroglyphists, and inscriptionists[…]
    • Rothko more than any artist I have known succumbed to the lure of light, light that, as the Byzantine inscriptionist said, can be contained but never captured really[…]
    • But it also reminds us from the beginning that words are the physical materials of this poet's work, as they are the materials for the inscriptionist.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA