Initialer

Quick meaning: Initialer is a noun meaning The artist who decorates the initial letters in an illuminated manuscript.

Meaning

The artist who decorates the initial letters in an illuminated manuscript.

More Meanings

1. The initial episode of a television show or series of films.
2. One who initials a document.

Example Sentences

At least in the initialer last week, the quiet cousin was completely irrelevant.

Often the ornamentor was an apprentice to the real artist of the scriptorium, the initialer.

. . . . despite a trite story, the initialer had to its credit a breezy pacing from director John English and excellent camera work.

There are also several places where the copyist wrote in the letter but the initialer failed to complete his task (e.g., 18v20, 19r6).

Word Forms

• initialers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include initialler, initial, initialing, letterer, versal, cipher.

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