epicist|ˈɛpɪsɪst| [f. epic + -ist.] A writer of epic poetry. 1853Kingsley A. Smith & A. PopeMisc. I. 272 As the Greek epicists and Virgil copied Homer; as all succeeding Latin epicists copied Virgil.1878T. Sinclair Mount 60 His placing of Cervantes as the greatest epicist.