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单词 homerist
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Homeristn.

Brit. /ˈhəʊmərɪst/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmərəst/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Homērista ; proper name Homer , -ist suffix.
Etymology: Originally < classical Latin Homērista reciter of Homer, rhapsodist < Hellenistic Greek Ὁμηριστής rhapsodist, actor of Homeric scenes < ancient Greek Ὅμηρος Homer (see Homeric adj.) + -ιστής -ist suffix. In later use (in sense 2) independently < the name of Homer (see Homeric adj.) + -ist suffix.
1. An imitator or follower of Homer; a person who recites Homeric poems, a Homeric rhapsodist. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > recitation of epic poetry > one who
Homerist1599
rhapsodist1656
rhapsode1712
Homerid1828
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > admiration or imitation of specific poet > [noun] > admirer or imitator of specific poet
Homerist1599
Homeriana1604
Ronsardian1697
Popean1730
Miltonian1748
Pindarist1781
Wordsworthian1812
Petrarchist1823
Byronist1830
papista1849
Goethian1850
Tennysonian1850
Shakespearolater1875
Ronsardist1877
Shelleyite1881
Browningitec1882
Byronian1883
Byronite1884
Shelleyan1886
Whitmanite1887
Keatsian1891
Spenserian1894
Omarian1897
Racinian1898
bardolater1903
Petrarchan1904
Burnsite1909
Thompsonian1913
Omarite1918
Burnsian1920
Shelleyist1934
Whitmanist1934
Dickinsonian1936
Poundian1950
Chattertonian1956
Whitmaniac1959
Whitmanian1977
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered iv. 15 You will be the Homerist of our time.
1694 W. Burnaby tr. Petronius Satyr (new ed.) 102 The Homerists ratled out Greek Verses, as, arrogantly enough, they were wont to do.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo x, in Wks. (1721) III. 292 The Homerists sat singing to bare Walls.
1786 R. Cumberland Observer II. xxxix. 96 The rhapsodists..were so constantly employed in repeating Homer's poems preferably to all others, that in time they were universally called Homerists.
1820 Q. Rev. July 408 We have no doubt that Virgil was often vexed in his days by a parallel with Homer, and that the Homerists often exulted over the Virgilians.
1842 J. A. St. John Hist. Manners & Customs Anc. Greece I. ii. x. 321 So much did recitations of Homer's works predominate over all others, that Rhapsodists and Homerists were often regarded as synonymous terms.
1913 A. B. Gough tr. L. Friedlander Rom. Life & Manners IV. 406 A wandering Homerist with a box full of costumes.
1998 D. Frankfurter Relig. Rom. Egypt ii. 58 The Serapia includes a comedian, two Homerists, dancers, and athletes.
2. A Homeric scholar.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [noun] > study of Homeric poems > one who
Homerist1695
Homerid1865
Homerologist1890
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. ix. 381 When I read..that this Poet flourish'd not long after Solomon's Days, I am apt to credit Casaubon and Grotius, and a Famous Homerist of our own, who all agree in this, that Homer borrow'd many of his..Sage Sayings or Proverbs from our Royal Author.
1792 A. Geddes tr. Homer 1st Bk. Iliad Pref. p. viii My version..will serve as a clavis or glossary to young Homerists.
1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer III. iv. i. 379 In no part of his treatment of the poems has that excellent Homerist..done better service.
1886 Athenæum 11 Sept. 331/2 The copious literature..poured forth by the new school of Homerists.
1917 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 38 406 Monro's eminence as an Homeric scholar might be thought to have been a recommendation in Mr. Gladstone's eyes, for Mr. Gladstone was a noted Homerist.
1999 V. M. Udwin Between Two Armies 13 No Homerist gives clearer expression to the assumptions of traditional literary scholarship than Bernard Knox.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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