单词 | elegiographer |
释义 | † elegiographern. Obsolete. A writer of elegies; an elegist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > lyric poet > elegiac poet elegiaca1586 elegiac poeta1586 elegiographer1623 elegiast1720 monodist1751 elegist1762 threnodist1827 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Elegiographer, which writes mournefull songs. 1653 Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick i. 1 Elegiographers and Tragoedians please their Auditors so much the more, by how much the more griefe they excite in them. 1659 E. Larkin True Effigies 170 Callimachus..was an Elegiographer of Cyrene. 1723 New-Eng. Courant 29 July 1/2 The Performances of this famous Elegiographer. 1762 Monthly Rev. May 358 But why should we weep, my good Elegiographer, when in the next Stanzas you tell us [etc.]. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Elegiographer, a writer of elegies; an elegist. [Also in later dictionaries.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623 |
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