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versificator|ˈvɜːsɪfɪkeɪtə(r)|
[a. L. versificātor (whence also It. versificatore, Sp., Pg. versificador, F. versificateur), f. versificāre to versify.]
One who writes verse; a poet, versifier.
1611Cotgr., Versificateur, a versificator, versifier, maker of verses. 1682Shadwell Medal Ep. A j b, His Fort is, that he is an indifferent good Versificator. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. p. xi, Statius, the best Versificator next to Virgil. 1746W. Horsley Fool (1748) I. 15 The Sons of Imagination, whether Lovers or..Prose-Writers, or Versificators. 1760Jortin Erasm. II. 105 Erasmus was very far from being as mean a poet as this versificator. 1805Edin. Rev. VI. 291 The system, upon which a certain sect of versificators have lately proceeded. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 477 Alliterations and epithets..with mechanical versificators are a mere artifice. |