单词 | myriologist |
释义 | † myriologistn. Obsolete. The singer of a myriologue. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer of songs madrigallera1704 songwriter1721 monodist1751 madrigalist1789 songsmith1795 myriologist1848 vaudevillist1879 the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [noun] > formal lamentation > dirge > person composing or uttering threnodist1827 myriologist1848 myrologist1910 1848 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Myriologist, one who composes or sings a myriologue, usually or always female. 1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah II. xxi. 288 Neither Naddabah (myriologist or hired keener) nor..any female..is present at burials. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 241 In some places there are found women who are professed myriologists. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xiv. 137 (note) English wants the word for the præfica or myrialogist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1848 |
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