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prosodist|ˈprɒsədɪst| [f. L. prosōdia prosody + -ist.] One skilled or learned in prosody.
1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 121 Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables, except that the exact prosodist will find the line of swiftness by one time longer than that of tardiness. c1800J. Walker Key to Classical Pronunc. (ed. 2) Advt., If it convinces future prosodists that it is not worthy of their attention. 1885Lecky in Philol. Soc. Proc. p. iii, Prosodists assumed that the quantity of an English syllable depended on the number of sounds it contained; that, for example, ask was longer than ass (vide Guest). |