Lit'er-ā'tor, n.

n. [Lat., from litera, a letter; Fr. littérateur, It. litteratore, a literary man, a man of letters.]

1. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke.
2. A person of literary tastes and culture; one of the literati; a learned or literary man.

That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter bibliomane, simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.