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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LIT'ERATOR, n. [L.] A petty schoolmaster.

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1791 litterateur

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Literator Lit"er*a`tor, n. [L. litterator, literator. See Letter.] 1. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. --Burke. 2. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter `` bibliomane,'' simply because they have once been interesting. --De Quincey. 3. A learned person; a literatus. --Sir W. Hamilton.