单词 | literatist |
释义 | literatistn. Now rare. A person engaged in literary pursuits; a writer, an author. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] bookerOE writerOE makerc1350 authora1382 inditera1387 pena1398 poetc1400 bookmakera1425 ditera1425 compilera1500 compositor?1533 book writer1565 penner1568 authorizera1579 bookwright1583 scribe1584 epistler1592 penman1592 scriptora1600 composer1603 book-breeder1605 comprisor?1623 volumist1641 scrivenera1660 literatist1660 knight of the quill1692 belletrist1816 scriever1825 creative writer1854 penworker1876 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iii. 84 He was not ashamed..as our Vniversities Literatists are at this day, to learn of women. 1762 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. X. ccxiv. 251 La Monnoye..was an excellent literatist. 1830 ‘J. Bee’ Ess. in S. Foote Dramatic Wks. (new ed.) I. p. xxix Indeed they are never the most elegant literatists who study longest, at college, the jargon of the schools. 1866 T. N. Harper Peace through Truth 1st Ser. 135 It would..seem as though the greater number of our modern literatists were a sort of inferior caste in English civilization. 1914 T. P. Terry Japanese Empire iv. xxiv. 373 Literatists know Shizuoka for the many old treasures of Japanese literature which the discerning Ieyasu caused to be printed here. 1987 Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. More importantly, how do the Academy Girls manage to combine being literatists with having friendly and fun personalities? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1660 |
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