tractator

noun

trac·​ta·​tor

-ātə(r),

-ātə-

plural -s

1

obsolete : a writer of tracts or treatises

2

usually capitalized [so called from the Tracts for the Times, series of Tractarian pamphlets] : tractarian

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin, from Latin, handler, from tractatus (past participle) + -or

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