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organist|ˈɔːgənɪst|
[f. organ n.1 + -ist, after med.L. organista, or F. organiste (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. One who plays an organ; spec. a person appointed to play the organ at the services in a church or other place of worship.
1591in Gentl. Mag. (1779) XLIX. 85 She gaue a newe name unto one of their Pauans, made long since by Master Thomas Morley, then Organist of Paules Church. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 154 This point..might well enough be left out, though it be very usuall with our Organists. 1640in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 165 Sir Nathanael Brent, and Sir John Lamb, Summoned for laying a Tax upon the Town of Hodsden in the County of Bucks, contrary to Law, for the maintaining a pair of Organs and an Organist. 1712Steele Spect. No. 503 ⁋2 The organist observed it, and he thought fit to play to her only. 1835Willis Melanie 364 The organist play'd out the hymn.
b. A player on a street- or barrel-organ.
1793Trial T. Muir at Edinb. 38 That she has been sent by Mr. Muir to an organist in the streets of Glasgow, and desired him to play ça ira.
†2. A maker of organs; an organ-builder. Obs.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 96 How much more..ought wee to admire that great and diuine organist, that hath made those goodly organs of mans body, and giuen them such a good sound? 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 327 Sericus an Organist [Organarius] or maker of instruments. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxiv, Looking-glasse-framers, Printers, Organists, and other such kinde of artificers.
†3. Mediæval Mus. = organizer 2. Obs.
1782Burney Hist. Mus. II. ii. 75 note. Ibid. 136 The four singers of the Alleluja are called Organists of the Alleluja, because they organize the melody of it. 1819[see organize v. 3].
4. A West Indian song-bird, a species of Euphonia, esp. E. musica. [F. organiste Buffon.] Also organist tanager.
1882Ogilvie, Organist tanager, a species of finch of the genus Tanagra, peculiar to the New World, so called from its musical powers. 1894Newton Dict. Birds, Organist, the English rendering of the Organiste of Buffon (Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 290), though it may be questionable whether all the information he cites really refers to this species. |