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versifier|ˈvɜːsɪfaɪə(r)|
Forms: α. 4–5 versifiour, 5 -fyowre; 5 versefiour, -fyour. β. 5 versyfyer, -fyar, 6 vercyfyer, 5 vercifier, 5– versifier, 6 -fiar, 6, 8 -fyer; 5 versefier, 5–6 -fyer.
[a. AF. versifiur (13th c.), versifiour, OF. versefiere, -fierre (13th c.), versifieur (14th c.), f. versifier: see versify v. and -er.]
1. One who versifies or composes verses; a verser or verse-maker; a poet.
αc1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 897 He suld fynd ful litel matere To mak ioy whilles he here duelles, Als a versifiour in metre þus telles. 1382Wyclif Job Pref., The whiche thing versifioures more than a symple redere vnderstonden. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xci. (Bodl. MS.), It is seide þt versifiours likned þe lelye to mannes inwitte. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 4 Wherfore seiþ a versifiour,..‘lat werke ouercome thi worde, for boste lesseneþ gode lose’. c1440Promp. Parv. 508/2 Versifyowre (H. versyowre), versificator.
β14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 681 Hic versificator, a versyfyer. a1450Mankind 746 in Macro Plays 27 As a nobyll versyfyer makyth mencyon in þis verse. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 13 Omer was an auncient vercifier in Grece. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 405 Of this noble prynce a vercyfyer made these .ii. verses folowynge. 1567Drant Horace, Ep. ii. ii. H iv, Euil versefyers mocked be, yet haue they to theire ioy. 1603Daniel Def. Rhime Wks. (1717) 32 This Self-Love, whereunto we Versifiers are ever noted to be especially subject. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. v. Wks. 1851 V. 227 Other pretious things,..describ'd in Malmsbury, tak'n..out of an old versifier, some of whose verses he recites. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. xvi. §1 More elevated language than the fondest critics have ever found in any of the Heathen versifiers either of Greece or Rome. 1789Belsham Ess. I. xii. 232 Pope has often been stiled the best versifier in the English language. 1828Harrovian 46 He was a good classic, and an excellent versifier. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 333 Those purely rustic poems which..have..been imitated by versifiers emulous of his gracefulness.
2. With depreciative force: A mere or poor writer of verse(s); a rimester, a poetaster.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xiii, Semblably they that make verses, expressynge therby none other lernynge but the craft of versifyeng, be..of auncient writers..onely called versifyers. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 28 Now swarme many versifiers that neede neuer aunswere to the name of Poets. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. i. (Arb.) 19 The translator, who..may well be sayd a versifier, but not a Poet. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 262 Rather nice and humerous in what was tolerable, then patient to read every drawling versifier. 1652–62Heylyn Cosmogr. iv. (1682) 85 Philip whom the Versifier (I do not say the Poet) called Philippus Hispanus. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Versifier, a maker of Verses, generally taken in an ill sense. 1781Sir J. Reynolds Journ. Flanders Wks. 1797 II. 112 The modern versifiers,..carrying no weight of thought, easily fall into that false gallop of verse. 1821Byron Diary Wks. (1846) 531/2 As different from an orator as an improvisatore or a versifier from a poet. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xi, She thought Byron an ephemeral versifier. |