单词 | rhythmer |
释义 | rhythmern.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 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 1/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Yet the valiaunt capitayne..dyd sooner wyshe to be Homer his Thersites, then to be the Alexander of that doltish rythmour, which vndertooke, with his woodden verses to blase his famous and martiall exploytes. 1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 108 An Epitaph.., such as oure vnlearned Rythmours accustomablye make vpon thee death of euery Tom Tyler. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 227 The Songs of British Bards, or Rhythmers. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 21 Amongst all the foul mouthes.., one rayling Rythmer..bore away the bell. 1705 A. Symson Tripatriarchicon Pref. Providing, ordinary ballad-makers, Countrey Rhythmers, mercenary Epitaph-mongers..be wholy excluded the Number. 1778 T. Pennant Tour in Wales I. 11 The most skilful minstrel, rythmer, or bard, at the Eisteddfod. 1834 G. N. Wright Scenes in Ireland 175 It..was esteemed one of the strongest fortresses in the olden time: its character is preserved by the rhythmers of those days: ‘We have no fortress we call our own But Limerick, Galway, and stout Athlone.’ 2. A person who uses rhythm in verse (esp. in the way specified by a modifying word). rare. ΚΠ 1884 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 319/2 Bicknell..is the first English scholar who has translated a Persian ghazal..poetically, and..has proved himself..a ready rhythmer and rhymer. 1897 D. Pelton Greenwood (1899) I. 10 Born a rhythmer, amid sublimer scenes, the music of the spheres beats time against the raptured brain and poured sweet poesy from the willing lips, and thus I wrote. ?c1970 J. Lennon in A. Babiuk Beatles Gear (2001) 117 I'm a rhythmer, I don't know nothing about these things, I'm a rhythmer. 2000 B. Wormser & D. Cappella Teaching Art of Poetry i. 2 Rhythm is the motive feeling of the life force, the ‘green fuse’ as Dylan Thomas (a very great rhythmer) put it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1577 |
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