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satirist|ˈsætɪrɪst|
[f. satire n. + -ist.
In the first quot. app. partly representing (with misapprehended sense) Gr. σατυριστής player of satyric drama.]
A writer of satires. Also (const. of) one who satirizes some person or thing.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xiii. (Arb.) 46 They made wise as if..Satyres or Siluanes should appeare and recite those verses of rebuke,.. whereupon the Poets inuentours of the deuise were called Satyristes. 1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1617) 36 Young Iuuenall, that byting Satyrist. 1597G. Harvey Trim. Nashe Wks. (Grosart) III. 63 We heare howe you threatned to spoile our stirring Satirist: alas, haue thy writings such efficacie? 1641R. Brathwait Nat. Emb. Ded. A ij, It is high time for the Satyrist to pen somthing which may diuert them from their impietie. 1706Pope Epit. on Dorset 7 Blest Satyrist! who touch'd the Mean so true, As show'd, Vice had his hate and pity too. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. xcix, Her very appearance was sufficient to silence the severest satirist of the sex. 1796Burke Reg. Peace Wks. VIII. 354 It is for the satyrist to expose the ridiculous. 1837Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 261, I am not setting myself up as the satirist of Bishops. 1875Helps Soc. Press. xiv. 194 A satirist, for instance, has generally some idea of improving mankind by his satire. |