Definition of Rhapsodist

1. n. Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.

Definition of Rhapsodist

1. Noun. a rhapsode. ¹

2. Noun. One who rhapsodizes. ¹

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Definition of Rhapsodist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhapsodist

rhaphides
rhaphis
rhaponticine
rhapsode
rhapsoder
rhapsoders
rhapsodes
rhapsodic
rhapsodical
rhapsodically
rhapsodies
rhapsodise
rhapsodised
rhapsodises
rhapsodising
rhapsodist (current term)
rhapsodists
rhapsodize
rhapsodized
rhapsodizes
rhapsodizing
rhapsody
rhason
rhasons
rhatanhy
rhatanies
rhatany
rhathymia
rhe

Literary usage of Rhapsodist

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

1. Overtones: A Book of Temperaments: Richard Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac by James Huneker (1904)
"... Ill NIETZSCHE THE rhapsodist Tell me, where is justice to be found which is love with seeing eyes ? — Also sprach Zarathustra. ..."

2. Some Motives in Pagan Education Compared with the Christian Ideal: A Study by Mary Katharine McCarthy (1914)
"During the latter part of the sixth century BC the "rhapsode" or the rhapsodist, a sort of professional public reciter, sang side by side with the minstrel ..."

3. The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographical by David James O'Donoghue (1893)
"THE rhapsodist, or MES SOUVENIRS, an epistle in verse, London, 1817, 8°. MS. note by Rev. NJ Halpin in British Museum copy. Died in 1817, being drowned in ..."

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