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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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhapsodist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhapsodist
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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