† prosodiann.adj.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii The Art of accenting, or the rule of pronouncing wordes truely long or short, prosodie. One skild in that Art, prosodian.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. i. 339 That the Forbidden fruit..was an Apple, is commonly beleeved,..and some have been so bad Prosodians, as from thence to derive the Latine word Malum; because that fruit was the first occasion of evill. View more context for this quotation

1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. II Prosodian, one skilled in metre or prosody.

1800 J. Carey Lat. Prosody made Easy Pref. p. iii If a student,..in reading them under the direction of a teacher who is a good prosodian, accustom himself to pronounce every syllable with its due measure, [etc.].

1852 J. S. Blackie On Stud. Lang. 13 The word female is, according to the technical style of Prosodians, a Spondee.

1880 S. Lanier Sci. Eng. Verse Pref. p. viii Coming down nine centuries to the time when Englishmen again begin to treat of verse, we are surprised to find each writer still claiming in more or less indirect methods to be the first prosodian among us.

1817 H. T. Colebrooke tr. Bhāskara Āchārya in Algebra 49 Commentators appear to interpret this as a name of the rule here taught; sád' hárana, or sád'hárána-ch'handó-gańita, general rule of prosodian permutation: subject to modification in particular instances; as in music.