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Homerist|ˈhəʊmərɪst| [ad. L. Homērista, a. Gr. Ὁµηριστής.] a. An imitator of Homer. b. A Homeric rhapsodist. c. A Homeric scholar.
1599Broughton's Let. iv. 15 You will be the Homerist of our time. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 292 The Homerists sat singing to bare walls. 1886Athenæum 11 Sept. 331/2 The copious literature..poured forth by the new school of Homerists. So ˈHomerize v. [cf. late Gr. Ὁµηρίζειν] intr., to practise the style of Homer.
1764Acc. Bks. in Ann. Reg. 272/2 Phidias and Apelles may be said..to have homerized. |