historiaster

English

Etymology

history +‎ -aster. Coined by William Ewart Gladstone in his review of J. Dunbar Ingram’s History of the Legislative Union of Great Britain and Ireland.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hɪsˌtɔːɹiˈæstə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

historiaster (plural historiasters)

  1. An inferior historian. [1887[1]]
    • 1947, Max Ludwig Wolfram Laistner, The Greater Roman Historians:
      "But this is shocking," some scientific historiaster of our own day will exclaim.

References
  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “historiaster”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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