Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who composes epigrams or writes epigrammatically.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them.
Examples
“He was called the epigrammatist, but the greater part of his jests seem to have little point.”
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
“As the epigrammatist Ashleigh Brilliant says, "Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are masters of our fates and captains of our souls.”
The Huffington Post: Martin Rossman, M.D.: Healthy Coping Tips For Distant Disaster Stress
“She will say things worthy of a French epigrammatist, and act like a robin in a greenhouse.”
“On SF seems to me to be a better book than I remember The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of being I don't have a copy at hand, because Disch's strengths are more those of an epigrammatist than a systematizer, and the short reviews that fill most of this book are a good medium for his talents.”
“He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know.”
“No subject, it seems, was off limits to the enterprising epigrammatist, and the only binding obligation was to have the courage of one's concision.”
“Akadie's profession included the offices of epigrammatist, poet, calligrapher, sage, arbiter of elegance, professional guest (hiring Akadie to grace a party was an act of conspicuous consumption), marriage broker, legal consultant, repository of local tradition, and source of scandalous gossip.”
Trullion: Alastor 2262
“This poor fellow was the jester, song-singer and epigrammatist of the madcap patriots who were associated under the title of "Sons of Geneva.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
“This was the _Matronalia_, and the epigrammatist Martial, who lived during the first century of our era, called it the Women's Saturnalia, on account of its permitted relaxation of manners.”
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
“Sir Robert Peel was no satirist or epigrammatist: he was only a statesman in public life: only a virtuous and friendly man in private.”
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
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