[f. next + -ER.] One who classifies.
1819. Rees, Cycl., s.v. Classification (L.), The classifiers of this period were chiefly Fructists and Corollists.
1830. Sir J. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., 293. He has performed his task, if not as a natural historian at least as a classifier and arranger.
1838. Emerson, Lit. Ethics, Wks. (Bohn), II. 212. No history, that we have, is safe, but a new classifier shall give it new and more philosophical arrangement.
