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parœmiographer|pəriːmɪˈɒgrəfə(r)| [f. Gr. παροιµία: see parœmia, -o1, and -grapher.] A writer of proverbs. So parœmiˈography, the writing of proverbs; a collection of proverbs.
1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit., Philos. Proverbs, The royal parœmiographer classes among their studies, that of ‘understanding a proverb and the interpretation’. Ibid. note, England may boast of no inferior parœmiographers. 1818W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLVI. 404 It seems to have been the model of the Parœmiography of Howell. |