metristn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛtrɪst/, U.S.

/ˈmɛtrəst/

Forms: 1500s metriste, 1800s– metrist, 1900s– meterist; also Scottish pre-1700 metrost.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin metrista ; metre n.¹, -ist suffix.

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin metrista (13th cent.; from 15th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin metrum metre n.¹ + -ista -ist suffix, or (especially in later instances) independently < metre n.¹ + -ist suffix.

(a) A person who writes (esp. skilfully) in metre; spec. a poet who is particularly adept in the handling of metre. (b) More generally: a metrical writer.

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

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > metricist

metrist?1545

metricist1881

?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Gvi Thomas Smythe..wyth soche other blynde Popishe Poetes and dirtye metristes.

a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 223 In Lating toung ane metrost [sic] wes he.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 378 There are not five metrists in the kingdom..to whom I could..have spoken so plainly.

1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. viii. 289 A very singular..poet, quite set apart from the troop of every-day metrists.

1894 R. C. Jebb in A. W. Ward Eng. Poets IV. 763 As a metrist he [sc. Tennyson] is the creator of a new blank verse, different both from the Elizabethan and the Miltonic.

1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. (1957) 412/1 Hephaestion belonged to the school of metrists who sought to explain metre by analysing it into its primary elements.., that is, the feet.

1980 Daily Tel. 18 July 13/5 If red-haired Mr Topping has not quite Flanders's skill as a metrist, he has much the same airy inventiveness and infectious good humour.

2009 N. Baker Anthologist iv. 61 Marianne Moore was a lifelong tennis player but not a good metrist.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	metrist
释义	metristn. Brit. /ˈmɛtrɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɛtrəst/ Forms: 1500s metriste, 1800s– metrist, 1900s– meterist; also Scottish pre-1700 metrost. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin metrista ; metre n.¹, -ist suffix. Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin metrista (13th cent.; from 15th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin metrum metre n.¹ + -ista -ist suffix, or (especially in later instances) independently < metre n.¹ + -ist suffix. (a) A person who writes (esp. skilfully) in metre; spec. a poet who is particularly adept in the handling of metre. (b) More generally: a metrical writer. 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 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > metricist metrist?1545 metricist1881 ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Gvi Thomas Smythe..wyth soche other blynde Popishe Poetes and dirtye metristes. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 223 In Lating toung ane metrost [sic] wes he. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 378 There are not five metrists in the kingdom..to whom I could..have spoken so plainly. 1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. viii. 289 A very singular..poet, quite set apart from the troop of every-day metrists. 1894 R. C. Jebb in A. W. Ward Eng. Poets IV. 763 As a metrist he [sc. Tennyson] is the creator of a new blank verse, different both from the Elizabethan and the Miltonic. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. (1957) 412/1 Hephaestion belonged to the school of metrists who sought to explain metre by analysing it into its primary elements.., that is, the feet. 1980 Daily Tel. 18 July 13/5 If red-haired Mr Topping has not quite Flanders's skill as a metrist, he has much the same airy inventiveness and infectious good humour. 2009 N. Baker Anthologist iv. 61 Marianne Moore was a lifelong tennis player but not a good metrist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1545
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