Definition of "compilator" []

• One who engages in compilation. (noun)

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• "As to Biès, he is a kind of superficial and really ignorant compilator who knows nothing of the things he writes about."
• "A compiler (compilator) combines the texts of other authors without adding any new material to the text, whereas a commentator “writes both others 'work and his own, but with others' work in the principal place, adding his own for purposes of explanation.”"
• "But she notes that, although the _Tatler_ showed its teeth against the "Proposal to the Ladies," the compilator made amends to the author (if not to the bookseller), by transcribing above a hundred pages into his _Ladies 'Library_ verbatim, except in a few places, which would not be found to be improved."