Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A metrical writer;a metrician.
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Examples
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The two entities, metrical scheme and portion of speech-material adjusted thereto, are distinct and the chief study of the metricist is the manner of adjustment of the latter to the former, the way in which a suitable portion of phonetic liquid is chosen and poured into metrical bottles. "[
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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It is only a little over three inches longer than a yard, but ask 'the metricist to change his system to the yard.
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I do not mean to say that this cannot be rectified, but show me the metricist who is willing to rectify it.
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Mr. Hardy is not only a very ingenious, but a very correct and admirable metricist.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888
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