单词 | dialogist |
释义 | dialogistn. 1. A writer of dialogue, esp. one who writes a literary dialogue (dialogue n. 1a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > dialogue > writer of dialogist1603 dialoguist1679 1603 A. Willet Antilogie to Apologicall Epist. vii. 161 Thus hath this (sophisticall dialogist) fayled as well in the probation of the assumption, as in his enlarging of the proposition. 1659 H. Hammond Dispatcher Dispatched iii. 213 If we will heed the dialogists reasonings. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 292 The Characters, or Personages, employ'd by our new orthodox Dialogists. 1839 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 271/2 The doctor had never read the Greek dialogist. 1878 10th Ann. Rep. Freedman's Aid Soc. (Methodist Episcopal Church) 55 About sixty years ago, that sage dialogist, Walter Savage Landor, predicted [etc.]. 1920 B. C. Williams Handbk. Story Writing xi. 199 The skilled dialogist bears in mind always that economy which is wrought by suggestion, and by which one reads between the lines. 2007 E. Rubinstein Relig. & Muse ii. iv. 93 Plato, the master dialogist. 2. A person who takes part in a dialogue, a speaker; esp. one of the participants in a literary dialogue (dialogue n. 1a). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > one who converses talkerc1386 interlocutor?1518 communera1572 interspeaker1586 converser1594 dialoguer1609 collocutor1620 dialogist1638 interlocutory1697 colloquist1792 interlocutrice1847 interlocutress1858 interlocutrix1860 cross-talker1907 1638 A. Ramsay Warning out of Babylon 29 Where was the antiquitie of worshipping the Crosse, when Minucius Felix..averreth in the person of Octavius his dialogist, that Christians did neither wish, nor worship crosses? a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 115 So doth he assert the matter..the like doth Cicero..sometimes in the person of his Dialogists. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxxvii. 172 The dialogist affirmeth that a long nose is not without its domestic conveniences also. 1847 T. De Quincey Milton v. Southey & Landor in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 253/1 The two dialogists are introduced walking out after breakfast. 1872 Q. Jrnl. Prophecy Jan. 66 Lucian makes his dialogist ask, What is man? 1967 Classical Philol. 62 55/2 As a writer of dramatic dialogues.., Plato may be expected to limit the intricacies of his theories to the intellectual level of the dialogists. 1995 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 9 Dec. a21 He is a master at verbal thrust and parry, a discrediting and demeaning dialogist whose verbal onslaught is..laden with accusatory adjectives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603 |
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