epicistn.
/ˈɛpᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˈɛpəsəst/ An epic poet; a creator of epics.
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1820 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 527 We rank Camoens with Tasso, Dante, and other Epicists of the second order.
1853 C. Kingsley A. Smith & A. Pope in Misc. (1860) I. 272 As the Greek epicists and Virgil copied Homer; as all succeeding Latin epicists copied Virgil.
1878 T. Sinclair Mount 60 His placing of Cervantes as the greatest epicist.
1916 Times of India 3 May 9/2 The other poem is..a unique attempt to recover a lost heritage,—the rhythm, with stress and alliteration, of the old Saxon epicists.
1981 Romance Philol. 34 284 The romancer enjoys greater freedom in the handling of his material than the epicist.
2007 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 20 Mar. 15 Homer, immortal epicist, takes on Hesiod, famous for agricultural maxims and hymns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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