[f. EPIGRAPH-Y + -IST.] A student of, or authority on, inscriptions.

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1865.  Merivale, Rom. Emp., VIII. lxvii. 300. Borghesi, the great epigraphist.

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1869.  J. D. Baldwin, Preh. Nations, iv. 170. Epigraphists … use a method that is much too convenient.

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