the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. 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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A historian; a writer of history; particularly, in later use, a professional or official historian: a title often conferred by European courts, usually as an honorary distinction, and sometimes by public bodies or institutions.
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n. a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
Word Usage
"Cardinal Pallavicini (d. 1667), known as the historiographer of the Council of Trent, won repute as a dogmatic theologian by several of his writings."