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palæographer

palæographer is the obsolete spelling of paleographer.

Meaning of paleographer

Noun

paleographer (plural paleographers)

  1. A person skilled in paleography.
    • Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality...1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge: University Press
    Synonyms:
    paleographist

Forms of palæographer

pluralpalæographers

Questions about palæographer

What is palæographer the obsolete spelling of?
Palæographer is the obsolete spelling of paleographer.

Words near palæographer in the dictionary

  1. palæobotany
  2. Palæocene
  3. palæoclimatology
  4. palæoethnobotany
  5. palæogeography
  6. palæographer
  7. palæographers
  8. palæographic
  9. palæographical
  10. palæographies
  11. palæographist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palæographer (page history and authors); paleographer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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