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Definition of Timists
1. timist [n] - See also: timist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timists
Literary usage of Timists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American History and Encyclopedia of Music edited by William Lines Hubbard (1910)
"With the aid of the metronome I have trained many pupils to be good timists who,
otherwise, would probably have failed. 2. The metronome, properly used in ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1907)
"... and the Christia «n Science Church as occupying eighth place among religioni ==*
bodies. Its members are devout, sincere and kind, always op» — timists, ..."
3. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"... the song to the negroes; for song they have none, being mentally incapacitated
for musical composition, though as timists they are not to be surpassed. ..."
4. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"... describes their primitive monotonous cadences and strongly nasalized recitatives.
He asserts that, though they are "admirable timists and no mean ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"As to time, that was not so bad, for the Germans are natural timists. At last
the music ceased, the curtain went up, and the members of the orchestra smoked ..."
6. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1863)
"... the song to the negroes ; for song they have none, being mentally incapacitated
for musical composition, though as timists they are not to be surpassed. ..."
7. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Richard Francis Burton, Isabel Burton, Stanley Lane-Poole (1906)
"The bystanders joined in the song ; an interminable recitative, as usual, in the
minor key, and — Orientals are admirable timists — it sounded like one ..."
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