Definitions
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- n. a person skilled in paleography
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is skilled in paleography.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an archeologist skilled in paleography
Etymologies
Examples
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The Sorbonne paleographer, Andre Lemaire, authenticated the Aramaic inscription as from the year 63 CE.
Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
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And this forensic paleographer over here agrees with me that it's too good to be true!
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I'm a trained paleographer (ancient documents in ancient languages on badly-preserved media), but that doesn't mean I actually PREFER to read the unreadable.
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If you would prefer, they have a mobile polygraph service, and can have a paleographer administer the test right in your home.
Fred Karger: Is the Mormon Church Funding the National Organization for Marriage?
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The Last Cato begins with Roman Catholic sister and world-renowned paleographer paleography is the study of ancient handwriting Dr. Ottavia Salina being pulled from her normal duties at the Vatican to help figure out who is stealing pieces of the True Cross from churches around the world.
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Saunière took the parchments to Paris to consult Abbé Hoffet, who, although still a teenager, was already noted as a gifted linguist and paleographer.
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This slim young man, barely twenty, was a living encyclopedia: a renowned polyglot, paleographer, and cryptographer.
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A paleographer must also be a scientist, in both a medieval and modern sense.
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In the former sense, the paleographer must know the whole process of manuscript formation from the view of the copyist himself.
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Last, but certainly not least, the paleographer must be a student of history.
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