phrasern.
/ˈfreɪzə/, U.S. /ˈfreɪzər/ A deviser or user of (esp. distinctive or striking) phrases; a phrasemonger. In later use also: a person who shapes musical phrases (well, badly, etc.).
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1614 Bp. W. Cowper Dikaiologie 71 You, if you continue in this Pharisaicall boasting, will proue but a phantasticall phraser.
1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 212 According to this English Phraser.
1878 J. Thomson Plenipotent Key 19 And though he speaketh much,—beyond demur, No phraser, but a trusty messenger.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist v Like all rapid phrasers, Mrs. Mountstuart detested the analysis of her sentence.
1913 B. Matthews Shakspere as Playwright xix. 350 Many..have gone so far as to receive Fletcher not only as the phraser of this scene, but also as its sole inventor.
1948 A. Hutchings Compan. Mozart's Piano Concertos xviii. 181 Once the soloist has begun, every other player becomes a meticulous rest-counter and ornament-phraser.
1985 R. T. Bower Changing Television Audience Amer. v. 108 The sharp distinction that political scientists, or other phrasers of questions in surveys, would have liked between television the informer and television the persuader.
2002 New Yorker (Nexis) 25 Nov. 64 As a singer, Simon is an adept and imaginative phraser.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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