单词 | metrician |
释义 | metriciann. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] versifierc1340 poeta1382 metrera1387 sayer?a1400 makerc1460 metrician?a1475 metrist?1545 singer1560 swannetc1560 songster1584 muse1596 Castalianist1607 metre-maker1611 versificator1611 swan1613 versemaker1647 verseman1652 Parnassian1658 bard1667 factist1676 poetic1687 minstrel1718 shaper1816 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 19 To the lawde of whom a metricion [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. metrere; L. metricus] seythe [etc.]. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xviv A Metrician made theyse Baladis of them. c1530 Court of Love v Ye that ben metriciens me excuse. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlij Because the fyrste lyne ended in dogge, the metrician coulde not..ende the seconde verse in Bore, but called the bore an hogge. 2. A student of or expert in poetic metre. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [noun] > prosody > metrics > one who studies metrographer1821 metrician1835 1835–8 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages (1844) 445 Why..are you..trifling with the metricians, deceiving with the poets, and deceived with the philosophers? 1864 J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 97 These Latin metricians..seem in their scanning of poetry to have beat time in the same way. 1892 W. R. Hardie in Classical Rev. June 249/2 The most advanced metrician probably falls short of being able to..reconstruct the exact scheme which Æschylus or Pindar intended. 1939 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 59 159 Ordinarily, the Hindu metricians mechanically define any metrical pāda of eleven syllables as ‘trisṭubh’, and any of twelve syllables as ‘jagatī’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1475 |
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