| 释义 |
ˈmediocrist Now rare.
[f. mediocre + -ist.]
A person of middling talents or ability.
1787Hawkins Johnson 271 If he be but a mediocrist, he is surely not a subject of imitation; it being a rule, that of examples the best are always to be selected. 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) I. 211 They danced well, sung a little..and were indeed mediocrists in all female accomplishments. 1818Todd [quotes Swift Let. Pope 3 Sep. 1735; but the early edd. have ‘among the mediocribus’]. 1823in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. 170 Warburton draws a very just distinction between a man of true greatness and a mediocrist. 1903Sat. Rev. 12 Dec. 722 Mr. —, the cultured mediocrist, so rarely relaxes the firm hold he has on commonplace,..that [etc.]. |