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rhapsodist

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rhap·so·dist  (rps-dst)
n.
1. One who uses extravagantly enthusiastic or impassioned language.
2. also rhap·sode (-sd) One who recited epic and other poetry, especially professionally, in ancient Greece.
rhapsodist [ˈræpsədɪst]
n
1. (Music, other) (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who speaks or writes rhapsodies
2. a person who speaks with extravagant enthusiasm
3. (Historical Terms) (Literature / Poetry) Also called rhapsode [ˈræpsəʊd] (in ancient Greece) a professional reciter of poetry, esp of Homer
rhapsodistic  adj


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Hearken to me, friends, nor heed that accursed rhapsodist.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
This fixed idea of the rhapsodist was delivered with animated enthusiasm, in a manner entirely declamatory, for he had plainly no skill as a dialectician.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
As to the origin of this song--whether it came in its actual state from the brain of a single rhapsodist, or was gradually perfected by a school or succession of rhapsodists, I am ignorant.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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