initialer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The artist who decorates the initial letters in an illuminated manuscript.
noun
The initial episode of a television show or series of films.
Example Sentences
- "Often the ornamentor was an apprentice to the real artist of the scriptorium, the initialer."
- "There are also several places where the copyist wrote in the letter but the initialer failed to complete his task (e.g., 18v20, 19r6)."
- "The printing press process borrowed the manuscript's assembly-line sequence of people and tasks, replacing rulers and scribes and initialers with typecasters who cut type, printers who designed the page and the book, compositors who set the type in place, cutters who made woodblock prints for illustrations and initials, and pressman who worked the press itself."
- "This maintains the standard of excellence set by the initialer and emerges as a well-knit chapter in the adventures of Leslie Charteris' popular modern Robin Hood, Simon Templar — otherwise known as "The Saint.""
- "Under Nicholas Ray's sock direction, the Marlon Brando mannerisms displayed in the initialer are gone and the role here carries much greater audience sympathy and response as a result."
- "Everything worked okay in the initialer except the one-dimensional and much too obvious prejudice of the personnel manager where Miss Carroll will work."
Etymology
From initial + -er.