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rhapsodist|ˈræpsədɪst|
Also 7 rap-.
[f. Gr. ῥαψῳδός rhapsode + -ist. Cf. F. rhapsodiste.]
†1. A collector of literary pieces. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. 31 Plinius Secundus..was the greatest Collector or Rhapsodist of all the Latines. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. i. 4 The Catholick Transcriber and Rhapsodist Athanasius Kircherus.
2. Antiq. In Ancient Greece, a reciter of epic poems, esp. one of a school of persons whose occupation it was to recite the Homeric poems.
1656Blount Glossogr., Rhapsodists, the Interpreters or Rehearsers of Homers verses. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. i. 15 The Rapsodists, holding a Rod, or branch of Laurel, in their hands. 1763J. Brown Poetry & Mus. §6. 117 The Rhapsodists, whose Profession it was to sing the Poems of Homer and Hesiod. 1795–1814Wordsw. Excurs. iv. 733 The gross fictions chanted in the streets By wandering Rhapsodists. a1854H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. iv. (1878) 153 When the earliest poetry of Greece had no surer abiding place than the memories and tongues of the Rhapsodists. 1880Mahaffy Hist. Grk. Lit. I. 26 It was believed in old times that both poems were written down by Homer, and then transcribed and preserved by schools of rhapsodists. 1886F. B. Jevons in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. VII. 294 Before rhapsodists existed, the Iliad was.
b. transf. and gen. A reciter of poems.
1765Percy Reliq. I. Pref. x, The artless productions of these old rhapsodists [sc. our ancient English Minstrels]. 1851Carlyle Sterling iii. iv, The same populace sit for hours.., listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 229 In his character of rhapsodist he passes from village to village.
3. One who rhapsodizes or uses rhapsodical language: in early use, with implication of want of argument or fact.
1741Watts Improv. Mind i. x. §11 (1801) 90 Let me ask our rhapsodist, ‘if you have nothing else, Sir, but the beauty and excellency, and loveliness of virtue to preach and flourish upon’. 1786Gentl. Mag. LVI. i. 305 He complains of some other ranters and rhapsodists. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. xxiv, The grief with which I read this rhapsody of predetermined insult had the rhapsodist himself for its whole and sole object. 1873Dixon Two Queens ii. ii. I. 78 ‘Granada’, cried her rhapsodists, with Oriental flush of metaphor, ‘has no equal on the earth’. 1889Spectator 26 Oct. 556/2 Like Burns, he was a satirist..and a rhapsodist of Nature, animate and inanimate. |