[f. next + -IST.] The compiler of an anthology.
1766. Monthly Rev., XXXIV. 83. Accordingly, our Anthologist has been so cautious, that his collection is certainly preferable, in this, as well as other respects, to any that have preceded it.
1804. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 651/1. It ought not to be supposed that any anthologist can strip the garden of its flowers.
1883. Sat. Rev., 3 Feb., 150/2. The editors of Living English Poets had few or none of the virtues of the good anthologist.
