Meanings
plural papyrographers
- historicalrareOne who writes on papyrus.
In the less educated papyrographers we find blunders of this kind.
1906, James Hope Moulton, Grammar of New Testament Greek, volume I, page 159 - historicalOne who uses a papyrograph to copy documents.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of papyrologist.
Origin
From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + -grapher (“writer”) and papyrograph + -er.
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