rare. [agent-sb. f. assumed L. *classificāre to CLASSIFY. Cf. F. classificateur.] = CLASSIFIER.
1861. Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. II. 53, note. We are indebted to Ray as the pioneer of all the classificators who have succeeded him.
1882–3. Herzog’s Encycl. Rel. Knowl., III. 1834. The latest classificators of knowledge.
