epigrammist

English

Etymology

From epigram +‎ -ist.

Noun

epigrammist (plural epigrammists)

1. An epigrammatist.
   • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:

     there is an Epigrammist that saith, That Art and Nature had spent their excellencies in his fashioning

Further reading

• “epigrammist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.