literator Meaning, Definition & Usage

Lit"er*a`tor noun
Etymology
L. litterator, literator. See Letter.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913