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One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.
Classicist
One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Scribbler
One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
Debutant
Alt. of Debutante
Letterer
One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
Storekeeper
A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
Calculator
One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.
Notary
One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.
Lecturer
One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
Engraver
One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
Salesman
One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Floorwalker
One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
Acolyte
One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
Deacon
To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.
Parson
A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the..
Pastor
A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.
Lector
A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.
Pundit
A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.
Sutler
A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.
Donor
One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.
Seller
One who sells.
Reverend
Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Merchant
One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
Banker
One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchan..
Provider
One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
Retailer
One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
Chandler
A maker or seller of candles.
Abbe
The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.
Teller
One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
Timekeeper
A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.
Cleric
A clerk, a clergyman.
Ecclesiastic
Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.
Curate
One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
Cassock
A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.
Clergyman
An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
Churchman
An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
Beadle
A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
Sexton
An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perf..
Catechumen
One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preli..
Reader
One who reads.
Philologist
One versed in philology.
Sacristan
An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
Preacher
One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
Deacon
An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest ..
Rector
A ruler or governor.
Litterateur
One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.
Savant
A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
Humanist
One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.
Confidential
Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.
Newcomer
One who has lately come.
Auditor
A hearer or listener.
Registrar
One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.
Recorder
One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
Accountant
One who renders account; one accountable.
Bookkeeper
One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
Stonecutter
One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
Archivist
A keeper of archives or records.
Scorer
One who, or that which, scores.
Librarian
One who has the care or charge of a library.
Embezzlement
The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having ..
Beginner
One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.
Actuary
A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.
Divine
Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
Abecedarian
One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
Stenographer
One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.
Puppet
A small image in the human form; a doll.
Amanuensis
A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Fed
imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Official
Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
Minister
A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
Patron
One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
Greenhorn
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.
Genius
A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee.
Commissary
One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
Probationer
One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.
Clerk
A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
Schoolman
One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
Freshman
novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.
Agent
Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
Scholastic
Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
Student
A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; a..
Scholar
One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
Philosopher
One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.
Elder
Older; more aged, or existing longer.
Novice
One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
Tool
An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implem..
Dupe
One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
Cashier
One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
Postulant
One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.
Ignoramus
We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The ph..
Recruit
To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
Tyro
A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.
Entrant
One who enters; a beginner.
Neophyte
A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, ..
Boot
Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
Controller
One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
Initiate
To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.
Marker
One who or that which marks.
Depository
A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.
Scribe
One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
Writer
One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
Apprentice
One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct hi..
Consignee
The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor.
Supplier
One who supplies.
Implement
That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.
Steward
A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
Shepherd
A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
Instrument
That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
Chaplain
An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
Register
A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
Factor
One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or ..
Pen
A feather.
