Definition of Orthoepist

1. Noun. A practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely).

Generic synonyms: Phonologist

Definition of Orthoepist

1. Noun. someone who studies the way words are pronounced ¹

2. Noun. (archaic spelling of orthoepist) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orthoepist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthoepist

orthodoxia
orthodoxical
orthodoxies
orthodoxly
orthodoxness
orthodoxy
orthodrome
orthodromes
orthodromic
orthodromical
orthodromy
orthoepic
orthoepical
orthoepically
orthoepies
orthoepist (current term)
orthoepists
orthoepy
orthoericssonite
orthoester
orthoesters
orthoexciton
orthoexcitons
orthoferrite
orthoferrites
orthoferrosilite
orthoferrosilites
orthoform
orthoformate
orthoformates

Literary usage of Orthoepist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Orthoëpist: A Pronouncing Manual Containing about Four Thousand Five by Alfred Ayres (1894)
"This word is very frequently—perhaps most commonly among mathematicians—pronounced Mp-ot'e-nuse; but Smart is the only orthoepist that sanctions that ..."

2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1882)
"By ALFRED AYRES, author of "The orthoepist." "It ii wisely written, and, ... The orthoepist: A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Three Thousand Five ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"An orthoepist ought not to be cocksure and dogmatic. ... The orthoepist who goes farther, and dogmatically asserts that a given pronunciation is correct and ..."

4. Abridged History of the United States .. by Emma Willard (1852)
"THE orthoepist. CONTAINING A SELECTION OF THE WORDS OF THE ENGLISH ... The latest edition of Webster's Dictionary is the standard for the ' orthoepist. ..."

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