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hymnographer|hɪmˈnɒgrəfə(r)|
[f. Gr. ὑµνογράϕ-ος hymn-writer (f. ὕµνο-ς hymn + -γραϕος writing, writer) + -er1.]
A composer of hymns.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. Pref. (1622) 4 There could none haue any cause to insult ouer another: not the Hymnographer ouer the Historiographer. [1656Blount Glossogr., Hymnigrapher, a Writer of Hymns. 1721in Bailey.] 1841Card. Wiseman Rem. Let. Rev. W. Palmer 56 St. Prudentius, the Christian hymnographer. 1846Grote Greece i. i. (1854) I. 46 The hymnographer describes him [Dionysos] as standing on the sea-shore. 1864Sat. Rev. 488 To bring before us the character of Hermes as conceived by the so-called Homeric hymnographer. |