Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who classifies or arranges in categories.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who categorizes.

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Examples

  • Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes, -- a capital offence in so learned a categorist.

    Representative Man (1850) 1850

  • Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes, -- a capital offence in so learned a categorist.

    Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • Swedenborg’s revelation is a confounding of planes, — a capital offence in so learned a categorist.

    Representative Men 2006

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