epigrammist

English

Etymology

From epigram + -ist.

Noun

epigrammist (plural epigrammists)

  1. An epigrammatist.
    • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. [], London: [] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, [], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:
      there is an Epigrammist that saith, That Art and Nature had spent their excellencies in his fashioning

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