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  • noun a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)

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Examples

  • Sir Julius Cæsar, prefixed to the first-named work, the writer speaks of having "once belonged to the _Innes of Court_," and says he was "no usuall poetizer, but, to barre idlenesse, imployed that little talent the Muses conferr'd upon him in this little tract."

    Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 Various

  • Yet Hawthorne is essentially a domestic writer, -- a poetizer of the hearth-stone.

    The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881

  • George Sand has ever been regarded as a poetizer of rural life, an arch-idealist of her humbler country-folks.

    In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

  • This poetizer, who seems to have been wholly devoid of genius, but to have possessed a certain talent for hitting the taste of the hour, was then held in high esteem; he has long since been forgotten.

    Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852

  • Yet Hawthorne is essentially a domestic writer, ” a poetizer of the hearth-stone.

    The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906

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