? Obs. [ad. L. anagnōstes, a. Gr. ἀναγνώστ-ης a reader, f. ἀναγιγνώσκ-ειν to read.] A reader, a prelector; one employed to read aloud; the reader of the lessons in church.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 231 (note). Lay the fault … vpon Plinies Anagnosts or Readers, who either read wrong, or pronounced not their words distinctly.
1702. trans. Le Clerc’s Prim. Fathers, 201. They … would both be Anagnostes, or read the Holy Scriptures in the Church.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. Ded. Carefully and distinctly read to him by the most learned and faithful Anagnost in this Kingdom.
