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obituarist|əʊˈbɪtjʊərɪst|
[f. obituary + -ist: cf. botanist.]
The writer of an obituary notice.
1792Childr. Thespis 183 When the tomb claims his limbs shall the Obituarists say, Where's now his successor, so brilliant—so gay. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. II. 262 The obituarists of Charles Dickens have some of them felt bound to defend him against the charge of being vulgar. 1905Beerbohm Around Theatres (1953) 399 The obituarists seem hardly to do justice to the intensely interesting personality of Irving in private life. 1930A. Huxley Brief Candles 4 ‘Metaphysically and artistically a cretin.’ ‘The obituarist doesn't seem to be of your opinion.’ 1961P. Fleming Bayonets to Lhasa 295 ‘The man’ wrote one of his obituarists ‘was greater than his message.’ 1972[see obit n. 1 b]. 1974Punch 3 Apr. 550/3 He joins the staff of this magazine as assistant obituarist. 1978P. Sutcliffe Oxf. Univ. Press iii. iii. 82 When he died in 1904 The Times obituarist attributed his failure to write in later life to the fact that he was unmethodical.
So oˈbituarize v. intr., to write an obituary notice; also trans.
1891Sat. Rev. 17 Oct. 437/2 The enormously difficult task of ‘obituarizing’ with appropriateness on a departed enemy of their country. 1969Observer 21 Dec. 28/2 Stand by for a barrage of TV programmes obituarising the Sixties. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Mar. 352/2 Evelyn Waugh, obituarizing Duggan, wrote [etc.]. |