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From rhyme + -ist.
rhymist (plural rhymists)
- One who rhymes; an inferior poet.
1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, volume II, J. Nichols, page 139:His character of Dryden, who sometimes visited him, was, that he was a good rhymist, but no poet.
