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epigrammatist|ɛpɪˈgræmətɪst|
[ad. late L. epigrammatist-a, ad. Gr. ἐπιγραµµατιστής, f. ἐπιγραµµατίζειν (see next).]
A maker of epigrams.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xi. (Arb.) 41 Others..in short poemes vttered pretie merry conceits, and these men were called Epigrammatistes. 1598Marston Pygmal. 136 Now by the whyps of Epigramatists, Ile not be lasht for my dissembling shifts. 1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. x. (1634) 89 In Martiall you shall see..a true Epigrammatist. 1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope (1782) II. xii. 355 [Donne's] grandfather on the mother's side was Heywood the epigrammatist. 1814D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. (1867) 385 This familiar comparison of a MS with a squeezed orange provoked the epigrammatists. 1873Black Pr. Thule ii. 17, I shouldn't advise a young man to marry an epigrammatist. |