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noun

Rhapsodist n.

Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.

Hence, one who recites or sings poems for a livelihood; one who makes and repeats verses extempore. "The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto."

One who writes or speaks disconnectedly and with great excitement or affectation of feeling.

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Etymology of 'Rhapsodist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rhapsodist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hence a sublimated Ethelberta accompanied him everywhere—one who never teased him, eluded him, or disappointed him: when he smiled she smiled, when he was sad she sorrowed. He may be said to have become the literal duplicate of that whimsical unknown rhapsodist who wrote ...

— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy

... see in this book, as you saw just now in Bossuet's, the principles, and, in a certain way, the text of the passages which the Government has condemned. It is no longer M. Sainte-Beuve, an artist, a literary rhapsodist, whom I am quoting; we now listen to ...

— The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert • Various

... been ever poor, suffered still further from enthusiastic attention to the needs of a belles-lettres club of nine members, and to the law society of his native city. The Columbian Magazine of August, 1789, contained his first published article. It was entitled "The Rhapsodist," and was continued through ...

— The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 • Albert Smyth

... of this school was Xenophanes, born in Colophon, an Ionian city of Asia Minor, from which being expelled he wandered over Sicily as a rhapsodist, or minstrel, reciting his elegiac poetry on the loftiest truths, and at last, about the year 536 B.C., came to Elea, where he settled. The principal subject of his inquiries was deity itself,—the great First Cause, ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume I • John Lord