[ad. F. lampiste, f. lampe: see LAMP sb.1 and -IST.]
1. One skilled in, or employed in, the construction or management of lamps.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, etc. 735. The operations of the lampist … belong to a treatise upon handicraft trades.
1855. Silliman, in Cone & Johns, Petrolia, iv. (1870), 64. I have submitted the lamp burning Petroleum to the inspection of the most experienced lampists who were accessible.
1858. Lardner, Hand-bk. Nat. Phil., 124. One of the difficulties with which lampists have had to struggle was, to [etc.].
2. nonce-use. (See quot.)
1887. Ribton-Turner, Vagrants & Vagrancy, xxvii. 559. Allampadati, or Lampists, who during Passion Week and at the great festivals begged oil for the lamps which are lighted in front of the host, or the images of the virgin.
