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单词 rhapsodist
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rhapsodistn.

Brit. /ˈrapsədɪst/, U.S. /ˈræpsədəst/
Forms: 1500s–1600s rapsodist, 1600s– rhapsodist.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rhapsody n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < rhapsody n. + -ist suffix. Compare French rhapsodiste (1689 denoting a person who makes a miscellaneous or disconnected collection of prose or verse). In sense 2a after post-classical Latin rhapsodus and its etymon ancient Greek ῥαψῳδός rhapsode n.; compare later rhapsode n.
1. A collector of miscellaneous literary pieces. Now historical and rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > miscellany > compiler or writer of
rhapsodist1581
rhapsoder1610
miscellanarian1711
miscellanist1810
1581 M. Hanmer Great Bragge & Challenge Confuted f. 16 Agayne, ye councyll summoned at Placentia, by pope Vrban hath contrary to your order established, as Gratian the Rapsodist hath alleaged.
1602 E. Bulkley Apol. for Relig. 159 This shamelesse saying you haue picked out of Campians reasons, out of which you haue like a goodly Rapsodist gleaned a great part of this lying Libel.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 31 Plinius Secundus..was the greatest Collector or Rhapsodist of all the Latines.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 4 The Catholick Transcriber and Rhapsodist Athanasius Kircherus.
1761 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. V. 375 Thus, Ludovicus Vives, calls him a downright rhapsodist, a confused collector, a prater without learning.
1983 Renaissance Q. 36 382 The first centuries of the Christian era also saw the compilation and issuance of many works of this type ranging from the Saturnalia of Macrobius and the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius, a ‘rhapsodist’ or collector, to such works as Plutarch's Lives and Moralia.
2.
a. Ancient Greek History. A reciter of epic poetry, esp. a person whose occupation was to recite the Homeric poems.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > recitation of epic poetry > one who
Homerist1599
rhapsodist1656
rhapsode1712
Homerid1828
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Rhapsodists, the Interpreters or Rehearsers of Homers verses.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. i. 15 The Rapsodists, holding a Rod, or branch of Laurel, in their hands.
1737 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) V. 27 His Lustrations were collected by Cleomenes the Rhapsodist, and sung at the Olympic Games.
1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music §6. 117 The Rhapsodists, whose Profession it was to sing the Poems of Homer and Hesiod.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) iv. 153 When the earliest poetry of Greece had no surer abiding place than the memories and tongues of the Rhapsodists.
1880 J. P. Mahaffy Hist. Greek Lit. I. 26 It was believed in old times that both poems were written down by Homer, and then transcribed and preserved by schools of rhapsodists.
1922 J. R. Smith Springs & Wells Greek & Roman Lit. 300 At the evening meal there were entertainments by dwarfs and conjurors, athletes and dancers, tragedians, comic actors and rhapsodists.
2002 R. Naddaff Exiling Poets ii. 59 The rhapsodist is not a poet. A professional reciter of poetry, eulogist of the poet, he was also honored as the expert interpreter of the poet's thought.
b. In extended use: a reciter of poems.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > one who
sayer?a1400
rhapsodist1690
rhapsode1867
poetry reader1930
toaster1974
1690 tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. ii. 57 They make Canto's not unelegant, which, Rhapsodists [L. Rhapsodi] recite, either to the better sort, or else to the vulgar, who are very desirous to hear them; and sometimes they sing them to Musical Tunes and Instruments.
1765 T. Percy Reliques I. Pref. x The artless productions of these old rhapsodists [sc. our ancient English Minstrels].
1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. xi. 295 The same populace sit for hours,..listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 229 In his character of rhapsodist he passes from village to village.
1952 Afr. 22 88 A family whose ancestors include a famous poet have the task of providing a rhapsodist to memorize and recite his work.
3. A person who rhapsodizes; a user of enthusiastic or effusive language. Frequently depreciative (esp. in early use), with implication of a lack of intellectual substance.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > [noun] > ecstatic expression > one who indulges in
rapturist1665
rhapsodist1668
1668 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Idea Perfection Painting 118 I dare not pursue to examine the rest of what this Rhapsodist says, for fear of importuning both my Reader and my selfe, and therefore, I shall here close this dissertation.
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. x. 162 Let me ask our Rhapsodist, if you have nothing else, Sir, but the Beauty and Excellency and Loveliness of Virtue to preach and flourish upon.
1786 Gentleman's Mag. 56 i. 305 He complains of some other ranters and rhapsodists.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xxiv The grief with which I read this rhapsody of predetermined insult had the rhapsodist himself for its whole and sole object.
1889 Spectator 26 Oct. 556/2 Like Burns, he was a satirist..and a rhapsodist of Nature, animate and inanimate.
1924 Amer. Hist. Rev. 29 356 At one time Mr. Eckenrode is a rhapsodist; at other times a serious man.
1958 F. L. Lucas Search for Good Sense 118 Always Johnson distrusted rapturists, and detested rhapsodists.
2007 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Dec. 2 Ignore the rhapsodists of the ring: there is no beauty in men beating each other up.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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