rare–0. [f. Gr. ἀγράμμᾰτ-ος illiterate (f. ἀ priv. + γράμματ-α letters) + -IST; after Gr. γραμματιστής.] ‘An unlearned, illiterate man.’ Bailey, 1731; whence in Johnson, etc.
1871. John Walkden, in Preston Chron., 25 July, 6/3. We have been stigmatised as mere agrammatists—as organised beings, of course, but to be led by the nose like horses; or, approximating more to the point, like asses.
