Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who phrases or words a notion; one who puts ideas or feelings into words.
  • noun One who is gifted in making smart or imposing phrases.

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Examples

  • Chap. 471. 459 as can be taken by persons already employed during the certain working day, and which, in order to be called vocational, phraser de - must in its instruction deal with the subject-matter of the day employment, and be so carried on as to relate to the day employment.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • To the oratorical and poetical recitations of his school years he attributed a measure of his artistry: "If I am not a singer, I am a phraser ....

    All the Luck in the World O'Brien, Geoffrey 2001

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