versifier

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  1. One who versifies; one who makes verses; a poet. Ther is a versifiour seith that the ydel man excuseth hym in wynter by cause of the grete coold and in somer by enchesoun of the heete. Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. There haue beene many most excellent Poets that neuer versified, and now swarme many versifiers that neede neuer aunswere to the name of Poets. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie (ed. Arber), p. 28.
  2. One who expresses in verse the ideas of another; one who turns prose into verse; a maker of a metrical paraphrase: as, a versifier of the Psalms.

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  • He was approaching seventy, and it might well seem that if so prolific a versifier was not likely to become silent his poetry was rapidly resolving itself into wastes of theological argument, of grotesque posturing, or intellectualised anecdotage. —  Robert Browning
  • By the same train travelled Radek, Demyan Bedny the popular Bolshevik versifier, and Zipperovitch, then the president of the Petrograd unions. —  My Disillusionment in Russia
  • Urban VIII had always been proud of his gifts as a versifier, and he was only too ready to accept the adulation of courtiers who called him the greatest poet of his age. —  Galileo in Rome
  • His talent for poetry earned him the post of "versifier" (poet-in-residence) for Bromley Friends of the Earth. —  Socialist Worker (Britain)
  • As a versifier, he has never been equalled. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
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