[a. F. cambiste, f. L. cambium, It. cambio exchange. (So Sp. cambista.)]
1. One who is skilled in the science or practice of exchanges; one who deals in bills of exchange.
1809. R. Langford, Introd. Trade, 130. Cambist, one well versed in the knowledge of exchanges, a trafficker in bills.
1861. Goschen, For. Exch., 99. These speculators in exchange, or cambists, as they are technically called.
2. transf. As title of a manual of foreign exchanges.
1811. P. Kelly (title), The Universal Cambist, and Commercial Instructor.
1882. Nature, XXVI. 55. The book is so far a cambist or dictionary of weights and measures.
