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humorist, humourist|ˈhjuːmərɪst|
[a. F. humoriste (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. med.L. and It. humorista, f. L. hūmor humour: see -ist.]
†1. A person subject to ‘humours’ or fancies (see humour n. 6); a fantastical or whimsical person; a faddist. Obs.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 31 Some base humorists. 1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. lxxxi. 332 Turbulent and contentious humorists. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. iii. v. 242 Our late humorists give power of excommunication..to every Parish-Presbytery. 1712Addison Spect. No. 477 ⁋1, I am..looked upon as an Humorist in Gardening. I have several Acres about my House, which I call my Garden, and which a skilful Gardener would not know what to call. 1718Ockley Saracens II. Introd. 7 All Humourists, Bigots and Enthusiasts. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. i. §12 A humourist is one that is greatly pleased, or greatly displeased with little things, who sets his heart much upon matters of very small importance. 1830Mackintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 175 Indulging his own tastes and fancies..he became..a sort of humourist.
2. A facetious or comical person, a wag; a humorous talker, actor, or writer; in mod. use esp. one skilled in the literary or artistic expression of humour. (See humour n. 7.)
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum., The Stage, To turn an actor, and a Humorist. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule ii. 203 Men love to be Merry..and prefer the Conversation of Humourists before that of the Serious. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 114 The Athenians liked a humorist, and a humorist Socrates..showed himself to be. 1871Athenæum 24 June 775 Swift was an inimitable humourist..Pope a consummate wit. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. iv. 110 Delight in blending the pathetic with the ludicrous is the characteristic of the true humorist.
b. fig.; also attrib.
1853Ruskin Stones Ven. III. iii. §34. 133 The pinnacled roofs set with their small humourist double windows, as if with so many ears and eyes, of Northern France. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun xxxii, Those old humorists with gnarled trunks and twisted boughs, the olives.
†3. One given to humouring or indulging. Obs.
1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels 349 You may be supposed..to be rather their humorist in an onely respect of their hier, then anie their approoued martialist to mannage these matters, in any right reuerend regard of their honours. 1686W. de Britaine Hum. Prud. vi. 28 Man is the greatest Humorist and Flatterer of himself.
4. = humoralist.
1846in Worcester. 1886in Syd. Soc. Lex. |