Also 4–6 -atour. [In ME. and AF. compilatour = F. compilateur, ad. L. compīlātor-em, agent-n. f. compīlāre; see note to COMPILE v.] = COMPILER.
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrol., Prol. I nam but a lewd compilatour of the labour of olde Astrologiens.
c. 1532. Dewes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 896. The whiche … the sayd compilatours have overtaken.
1683. E. Hooker, Pref. Ep. Pordage’s Mystic Div., 38. The pains I have somewhat taken to be a Compilator.
1835. Chamb. Jrnl., 10 Oct., 292. The language of a late compilator.
