Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A computer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A computer{1}.
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- noun One who performs
computations .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his gripe. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Such calculations are, indeed, at a great distance from mathematical exactness, as they arise from the induction of a few particulars, and from observations made rather according to the temper of the computist, than the nature of things.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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Just that there would be some kind of pressure or process to ensure (1) that there was enough material on Aquinas, Scotus &c, but (2) that the articles on the Garland the computist or Frigidius of Tours (say) were not the size of those covered in (1).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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