Rhapsodist Definition

răpsə-dĭst
noun
One who uses extravagantly enthusiastic or impassioned language.
American Heritage

Rhapsode.

Webster's New World
A person who rhapsodizes.
Webster's New World
One who recited epic and other poetry, especially professionally, in ancient Greece.
American Heritage

A rhapsode.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Rhapsodist

Noun

Singular:
rhapsodist
Plural:
rhapsodists

Rhapsodist Sentence Examples

  • It was necessary, of course, to divide the poem to be recited into parts, and to compel each contending rhapsodist to take the part assigned to him.

  • He adds that there was a famous rhapsodist, Cynaethus of Chios, who was said to be the author of the Hymn to Apollo, and to have first recited Homer at Syracuse about the 69th Olympiad.

  • If it proves anything, it proves that Cynaethus, who was a Chian and a rhapsodist, made no claim to Homeric descent.

  • The poet who brought the exploits of Diomede into the Iliad doubtless had his reasons for doing so, which were equally strong whether he was the poet of the AchilleIs or a later Homerid or rhapsodist.

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