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ˈarch-ˈpoet
[f. arch- 1, after med.L. archipoēta.]
a. Chief or first poet.b. A poet-laureate (obs.)
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 186 Henrie of Aurenches, Archpoet to King Henrie the Third. 1648Herrick Hesper. (1844) II. 150 After the rare arch-poet died, The sock grew loathsome. 1714Ironside Orig. Canto of Spencer (ed. 2) Pref. 5 England's Arch-Poet Spencer. a1744Pope Poet Laureat (T.) The title of ‘archipoeta,’ or arch-poet, in the style of those days: in ours, poet laureat. a1754Fielding Pleas. Town Wks. I. 208 The election of an arch-poet, or, as others call him, a poet-laureate to the goddess of Nonsense. |