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Compositor   Listen
noun
Compositor  n.  
1.
One who composes or sets in order.
2.
(Print.) One who sets type and arranges it for use.





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... imagination played a small part in our philosopher's life, and least of all was it active in these London days. His skepticism in fact became acute, and sought relief in public expression. As a compositor Franklin was engaged in setting up one of the many religious treatises then pouring out against the deists, and as the author's arguments seemed insufficient to the young reasoner, he wrote and printed ...
— Benjamin Franklin • Paul Elmer More
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... entered the office of the Golden Era as a compositor, but soon began to write articles for the paper. These attracted favorable notice and he was ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various
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... decided to make him compositor in a new printing place. Until then he'll stay with ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky
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... I found poorly qualified for their business. Bradford had not been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, tho' something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork. He had been one of the French prophets,[29] and could act their enthusiastic agitations. At this time he did not profess any particular religion, but something of all on occasion; was very ignorant of the world, and had, as I afterward found, a good deal of the ...
— Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin
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... not so foolish as to believe that God having once sent a deep message of truth to man, would suffer it to lie at the mercy of a careless or a wicked copyist. Treasures so vast would not be left at the mercy of accidents so vile. Very little more than two hundred years ago, a London compositor, not wicked at all, but simply drunk, in printing Deuteronomy, left out the most critical of words; the seventh commandment he exhibited thus-'Thou shalt commit adultery;' in which form the sheet was struck off. And though in those days no ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey
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