Punctator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who marks with points, especially in writing Hebrew.

    "In the Hebrew notation the one dot for [i] and the two dots for [e] go back to the Nestorian punctators; but in Hebrew they are used exclusively to stand for these vowel"

  2. 2
    An official charged with keeping track of attendance at religious services.

    "The punctator calls their names and keeps an account of the absent."

  3. 3
    A secretary for a choir who copied music and often pointed to the correct note during practice.

    "Their "punctator," or secretary, was a Spaniard, Cristofano de Hoyeda, whose recording of a protest against Palestrina's admission to the choir has already been mentioned."

  4. 4
    One who punctuates.

    "But the statement of another inquirer, equally learned, "that the punctators borrowed their punctuation from the Arabic," shows how little force this proposition has."

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"In the Hebrew notation the one dot for [i] and the two dots for [e] go back to the Nestorian punctators; but in Hebrew they are used exclusively to stand for these vowel"

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