nomenclator
Noun

nomenclator (plural nomenclators)

  1. An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
    • 63 b.c., Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Lucio Murena: Oratio Ad Iudices, 1956, Page 115 ↗
      If he does not know them, it is deception to pretend that he does, while all the time he has never heard of them until instructed by the nomenclator.
    • circa 20 Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Aubrey Stewart (translator), On Benefits: Addressed to Aebutius Liberalis, 1912, page 187
      Pray, do you suppose that those books of names, which your nomenclator can hardly carry or remember, are those of friends ?
    • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicoene, [http://books.google.com/books?id=B3EkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA206&dq=nomenclator&lr=&ei=8NjHR5GcM4eqiwHrj83gCA#PPA206,M1 Act III]
      Daw. I have brought some ladies here to see and know you. My Lady Haughty [as he presents them severally, EPI. kisses them.]—this my Lady Centaure — Mistress Dol Mavis — Mistress Trusty, my Lady Haughty's woman. Where's your husband ? let's see him: can he endure no noise? let me come to him.
      Mor. What nomenclator is this !
      True. Sir John Daw, sir, your wife's servant, this.
  2. One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
    • 1969, Reginald Townsend Townsend, "What's in a Name?", in This, That, and the Other Thing, page 27
      The nomenclator's method is first to look about and see if the place has any natural features to suggest a name—like Rocking Stone Farm or White Birches.
  3. A document containing such name assignments.
  4. An early form of substitution cipher.
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