Obs. [a. L. computātor, agent-n. f. computāre to COMPUTE: see -OR.] A computer, calculator.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, III. xxxi. 153. Saith Eutropius (who is indeede no good computator).
1635. Swan, Spec. M., vii. § 3 (1643), 355. As the computatours fail in skill.
1759. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1770), I. 153 (D.). The intense heat is proved by computators … to be more than equal to that of red hot iron.
