单词 | miscellanist |
释义 | miscellanistn. A writer of miscellany, or of a miscellany. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > miscellany > compiler or writer of rhapsodist1581 rhapsoder1610 miscellanarian1711 miscellanist1810 1810 Ld. Byron in Mem. F. Hodgson (1878) I. 168 My third [letter] will be conveyed by Cam, the miscellanist. 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 35 A late miscellanist, more celebrated for versatility and self-confidence than for exactness. 1889 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 219 We may..consider him [sc. Leigh Hunt] first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as..a miscellanist. 1931 A. M. Clark (title) Thomas Heywood, playwright and miscellanist. 1997 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 June 1 He is sometimes described as a ‘miscellanist’, a term redolent of a bygone age of genial scholarly browsing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810 |
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