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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Historiographer \His*to'ri*og"ra*pher\ (h[i^]s*t[=o]'r[i^]*[o^]g"r[.a]*f[~e]r), noun [L. historiographus, Gr. "istoriogra'fos; "istori'a history + gra'fein to write: cf. F. historiographe.] An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
historiographer
noun: a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it [syn: {historian}]
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