Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who versifies; one who makes verses; a poet.
- noun One who expresses in verse the ideas of another; one who turns prose into verse; a maker of a metrical paraphrase: as, a versifier of the Psalms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who versifies, or makes verses.
- noun One who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose. Watts was a
versifier of the Psalms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
versifies . - noun pejorative An inferior
poet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gone were the days when poets were seen as avatars of divinely inspired knowledge: for Plato (despite having dabbled in poetry himself in his salad days), the versifier was a feckless artificer, a pernicious influence on the moral hygiene of the polis and not to be trusted with the heavy lifting of the intellect.
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He took part in the debating society, where he was prominent, and was known as a versifier of both love poems and satire.
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His talent for poetry earned him the post of "versifier" (poet-in-residence) for Bromley Friends of the Earth.
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Even the representational symbols of physics can carry the mind way beyond the perceivable world, but conveying the celestial, majestic and eternal vastness that is altogether ineffable -- that's the undertaking of the transrational artist and versifier; transmitting via poetic expression, filmmaking, painting ... or just being one's ridiculous self.
Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon Sebastian Siegel 2010
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Even the representational symbols of physics can carry the mind way beyond the perceivable world, but conveying the celestial, majestic and eternal vastness that is altogether ineffable -- that's the undertaking of the transrational artist and versifier; transmitting via poetic expression, filmmaking, painting ... or just being one's ridiculous self.
Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon Sebastian Siegel 2010
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The comely Abbie Cornish is the very picture of grace and independence, but Wishaw holds his own as the dreamy versifier who finds himself drawn into a blissful, tormented love affair with a woman he cannot have.
John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance John Farr 2011
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The comely Abbie Cornish is the very picture of grace and independence, but Wishaw holds his own as the dreamy versifier who finds himself drawn into a blissful, tormented love affair with a woman he cannot have.
John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance John Farr 2011
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Even the representational symbols of physics can carry the mind way beyond the perceivable world, but conveying the celestial, majestic and eternal vastness that is altogether ineffable -- that's the undertaking of the transrational artist and versifier; transmitting via poetic expression, filmmaking, painting ... or just being one's ridiculous self.
Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon Sebastian Siegel 2010
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The comely Abbie Cornish is the very picture of grace and independence, but Wishaw holds his own as the dreamy versifier who finds himself drawn into a blissful, tormented love affair with a woman he cannot have.
John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance John Farr 2011
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Even the representational symbols of physics can carry the mind way beyond the perceivable world, but conveying the celestial, majestic and eternal vastness that is altogether ineffable -- that's the undertaking of the transrational artist and versifier; transmitting via poetic expression, filmmaking, painting ... or just being one's ridiculous self.
Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon Sebastian Siegel 2010
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