α. 1500s–1700s satyrist.
β. 1500s– satirist, 1600s saterist, 1600s satiryst.
单词 | satirist |
释义 | satiristn.α. 1500s–1700s satyrist. β. 1500s– satirist, 1600s saterist, 1600s satiryst. A writer or producer of satires; a person who uses satire; a person who satirizes someone or something. Also with of specifying the person, state of affairs, etc., satirized. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > humorous writer > of lampoon or satire satirica1387 satirist1566 Juvenal1592 pasquiller1598 sillographer1656 lampooner1693 sillographist1775 squibber1810 pasquillant1817 pasquinader1824 sillograph1824 lampoonist1880 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > satire > [noun] > one who employs satirica1387 satirist1566 Lucianist1585 Juvenal1592 satire1596 Lucian1752 satirizer1789 1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. aiiii.v The Satyrist loues Truthe, none more then he. An vtter foe to fraude in eache degree. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xiii. 25 They made wise as if..Satyres or Siluanes, should appeare and recite those verses of rebuke,..whereupon the Poets inuentours of the deuise were called Satyristes. 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte To Gentl. Acquaint. sig. F Yong Iuuenall, that byting Satyrist. 1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie Ded. sig. A2 It is high time for the Satyrist to pen somthing which may diuert them from their impietie. 1671 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Picture (ed. 2) 214 The Envious were Satyrists, who describe the World a Hell, and the Men therein Devils. 1735 A. Pope Epitaph on Dorset in Wks. II. 153 Blest Satyrist! who touch'd the Mean so true, As show'd, Vice had his hate and pity too. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 141 Her very appearance was sufficient to silence the severest satyrist of the sex. 1837 S. Smith Let. Archdeacon Singleton 13 I am not setting myself up as the satyrist of Bishops. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure xiv. 194 A satirist, for instance, has generally some idea of improving mankind by his satire. 1919 Catholic World Jan. 433 A graceless satirist, to whom nothing was sacred. 1956 A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 137 Moralists and political reformers, satirists and science fictioneers—all have contributed their quota to the stock of imaginary worlds. 1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. vii. 6/1 His considerable skills as a caustic and amusing satirist of the pettiness and outmodedness of Canadian provinciality. 2012 L. S. Clark & J. Dierberg in D. Winston Oxf. Handbk. Relig. & Amer. News Media vi. 101 Some of today's political satirists, such as Bill Maher in his comedic documentary Religulous, adopt this position of scorn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1566 |
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