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单词 ironist
释义 I. ironist1|ˈaɪərənɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist: in F. ironiste.]
One who uses irony; an ironical speaker or writer.
1727Pope, etc. Art Sinking 115 A poet or orator would have no more to do but to send to..the ironist for his sarcasms, to the apothegmatist for his sentences.1832W. Anderson in Mem. R. Hall H.'s Wks. VI. 134 Socrates was called the ironist from his constant assumption of a character that did not belong to him.1836Blackw. Mag. XL. 309 All this time you have been playing the Ironist.
II. ˈironist2 Obs.
[f. iron n.1 + -ist.]
One who uses iron weapons.
1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Warres viii. 4 That kind of Raiters, which from their many pistols and other iron weapons are called Ironists [L. Ferreolos].
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