[f. Gr. καλλιγράφ-ος or Eng. CALLIGRAPHY + -IST: cf. zoologist, etc.] = CALLIGRAPHER, esp. in sense 1.
1816. Singer, Hist. Cards, 134. The same calligraphist furnished the prototype of both.
1849. Miss Mulock, Ogilvies, 24. All the care of her governess and masters had never succeeded in making her a caligraphist.
1850. Teale, Educ. in Eng., 5. S. Dunstan was … a calligraphist.
