versificatorn.
/ˈvəːsɪfɪkeɪtə/ One who writes verse; a poet, versifier.
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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
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Versificateur, a versificator, versifier, maker of verses.
1682 T. Shadwell Medal of John Bayes Ep. A j b His Fort is, that he is an indifferent good Versificator.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. vii Statius, the best Versificator next to Virgil.
1746 Fool (1748) I. 15 The Sons of Imagination, whether Lovers or..Prose-Writers, or Versificators.
1760 J. Jortin Life Erasmus II. 105 Erasmus was very far from being as mean a poet as this versificator.
1805 Edinb. Rev. 6 291 The system, upon which a certain sect of versificators have lately proceeded.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 393 Alliteration and epithets..with mechanical versificators are a mere artifice.
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