epigrammatistn.
/ɛpɪˈɡramətɪst/ A maker of epigrams.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > epigram > composing of > composer of
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epigrammatarian1597
epigrammist1641
epigrammatizer1870
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xi. 20 Others..in short poemes vttered pretie merry conceits, and these men were called Epigrammatistes.
1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 25 Now by the whyps of Epigramatists, Ile not be lasht for my dissembling shifts.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman x. 89 In Martial you shall see..a true Epigrammatist.
1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. xii. 424 [Donne's] grandfather on the mother's side was Heywood the epigrammatist.
1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. II. 153 This familiar comparison of a MS. with a squeezed orange, provoked the Epigrammatists.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule ii. 24 I shouldn't advise a young man to marry an epigrammatist.
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