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Definition of Timist
1. n. A performer who keeps good time.
Definition of Timist
1. Noun. (obsolete music) A performer who keeps good time. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A timeserver. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Timist
1. a time-server [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timist
Literary usage of Timist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rump: Or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the (1662)
"The disloyal timist. NOw our holy Wars are don, Betwixt the Father and the Son;
And since we have by righteous fate, Distrest a Monarch and his Mate. ..."
2. Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century, by Henry Morley (1891)
"A timist Is a noun adjective of the present tense. He hath no more of a conscience
than fear, and his religion is not his but the prince's. ..."
3. Mother-play and Nursery Songs: Poetry, Music and Pictures for the Noble by Friedrich Fröbel (1898)
"... an exact, fine timist. Would you like now, careful mother, to omit in the
early fostering of your child any thing which might cultivate an exact and ..."
4. Helps in the Use of Good English: A Hand-book for All who Desire to Speak Or by Albert Newton Raub (1897)
"... and we have walker, talker, and the like, but " timist" is still / used by
some to denote one who keeps correct time in his musical performances. ..."
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