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metrician|mɪˈtrɪʃən|
Also 4 -cion, 6 -cien.
[f. L. metric-us metric a.1, after physician.]
†1. One who writes in metre. Obs.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 19 To the lawde of whom a metricion [L. metricus] seithe [etc.]. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 322 A metrician made theyse baladis of them. c1530Crt. Love v, Ye that ben metriciens me excuse. a1548Hall Chron., Rich. III 42 Because the fyrste lyne ended in dogge, the metrician coulde not..ende the seconde verse in Bore, but called the bore an hogge.
2. One who studies or is learned in metre.
1835–8S. R. Maitland Dark Ages (1844) 445 Why..are you..trifling with the metricians, deceiving with the poets, and deceived with the philosophers? 1864J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 97 These Latin metricians..seem in their scanning of poetry to have beat time in the same way. 1892W. R. Hardie in Class. Rev. June 249/2 The most advanced metrician probably falls short of being able to..reconstruct the exact scheme which æschylus or Pindar intended. |