单词 | rhymester |
释义 | rhymestern. A person who composes rhymes or verses, esp. verses of inferior quality; a rhymer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > minor poet or poetaster rhymera1500 versifier1531 rhythmer1577 rhymester1593 poetizer1599 jingler1600 penny poet1600 poetaster1601 verser?1611 versemonger1634 poetitoa1637 foot poet1641 verseman1652 sonneteer1667 tinkler1689 verse-wright1729 rhymist1763 bardling1813 coupleteer1818 verse-smith1820 poetling1830 versicler1860 bardlet1867 poeticule1872 poetast1892 α. β. 1628 W. Lathum in J. L. Vives tr. Virgil Eclogues iii. 49 Some base infamous Rhymester, such as Maevius, or Bavius; or the like.1684 T. Otway Atheist Prol. sig. A4 Rhymesters get Wit, e'er they pretend to shew it, Nor think a Game at Cramboe makes a Poet.1719 J. Dennis Orig. Lett. (1721) I. 91 But as Poets are not capable, so neither are they impartial Judges. I speak of those who are only Rhimesters.1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 141 He is a Popish rhymester, bred up with a contempt of the Sacred Writings.1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 269 Specimens of all the poets and rhymsters from that time to the present.1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter xxii, in Poems (new ed.) 45 Love, whose early rage Made me a rhymster in my youth.1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. ii. i. 72 In youth, a rhymester and a student, he is said to have translated Ovid into Spanish verse.1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle ii. ii. 239 The wretched, limping rhymester whom they call Homer?1987 Writer's Digest May 10/1 The second common failing even of rhymesters who have an ear for meter is that it becomes mechanical.1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 65 To snibb the Thrasonicall rimester with Angelical meeter. 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. ii. 4 Such wondrous rablements of Rim-sters new. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 239 Another old Elderton and right baladin-rimester. 1640 Womens Sharpe Revenge 90 I speake of our mungrill Rimsters, that with an affectate over-weening conceite of themselves, doe imagine that they can cough Logicke. 1738 J. Bancks Misc. Wks. I. 192 It was the name of an Italian Rymester, who sung to his Harp twenty thousand Verses of his own Composition. 1819 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 47 118 Like our now-a-day rimesters. 1941 P. Grainger Let. 27 Sept. in All-round Man (1994) 180 I love yr taste in book-art (Hardy, Chaucer, Masefield, & that rimster in Dorset or Somerset stead-speech). 1997 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 29 Mar. 32 A singer who reigns and will never resign as our merriest rimester. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1593 |
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