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mimographer|maɪˈmɒgrəfə(r)|
[f. L. mīmograph-us (a. Gr. µῑµογράϕος, f. µῖµο-ς mime n. + -γράϕος writer) + -er1: see -grapher.]
A writer or composer of mimes.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 235 Mimographers I needs must call them. Ibid. 267 Some are Poëtasters, or Mimographers. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 196 'Tis in this that the great mimographer, the father and prince of poets, excels so highly; his characters being wrought to a likeness beyond what any succeeding masters were ever able to describe. 1858Donaldson tr. C. O. Müller's Hist. Lit. Anc. Gr. xxxix. §4 II. 215 Sophron the mimographer. |