miscellanist

[ mis-uh-ley-nist; British mi-sel-uh-nist ]

noun

1. a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.

miscellanist

/ mɪˈsɛlənɪst /

noun

1. a writer of miscellanies

Word History and Origins

Origin of miscellanist¹

First recorded in 1800–10; miscellan(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

In song and satire alike Burns is racy, in the highest degree, of the poets of North Britain, who since Robert Sempill, Willy Hamilton of Gilbertfield, douce Allan Ramsay, the Edinburgh periwig-maker and miscellanist, and Robert Fergusson, “the writer-chiel, a deathless name,” had kept alive the old native poetic tradition, had provided the strolling fiddlers with merry and wanton staves, and had perpetuated the daintiest shreds of national music, the broadest colloquialisms, and the warmest hues of patriotic or local sentiment.

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Among the most energetic of those who were emptying the bags, the most vocal of the roarers, there was a tall, thin, humorous fellow who reminded me irresistibly of a brilliant poet and miscellanist of the modern school.

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But he was, though in both ways a most unequal, a delightful miscellanist and critic.

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He was, however, perhaps most popular in his own time, and certainly he gained most of the not excessive share of pecuniary profit which fell to his lot, as what I have called a miscellanist.

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All this we may not unkindly brush away, and consider him first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as what can be best, though rather unphilosophically, called a miscellanist.

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