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rhymist|ˈraɪmɪst|
[f. rhyme v. + -ist.]
1. A writer of rimes or verses; a versifier.
a1764R. Lloyd On Rhyme 81 Wks. (1774) II. 108 Blest the poet, or the rhymist,..Who..First taught the Muse to play the fool. 1772Nugent Hist. Fr. Gerund II. 119 A canon..who was a great rhymist and a jolly fellow. 1786Cowper Let. to Rev. W. Unwin Wks. 1836 VI. 17, I have this peculiarity belonging to me as a rhymist that though I am charmed..with my own work, while it is on the anvil [etc.]. 1802A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 44 The herd of vapid rhymists will make the poets turn disgusted away from such fellowship. 1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 193 The reason why is the reason the rhymist didn't like Doctor Fell.
2. One who uses (good or bad) rimes.
1779Johnson L.P., Milton (1868) 62 [Cowley's] character of Dryden..was, that he was a good rhymist, but no poet. 1849Blackw. Mag. LXV. 456 The ingenious labours of the rhymist may be put on a par..with the tricks of the juggler. 1877Athenæum 27 Oct. 525/1 They [sc. double rhymes] have taxed the resources of the best English rhymist since the author of ‘Hudibras’. |