rhapsodist

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RHAP'SODIST, noun [from rhapsody.] 1. One that writes or speaks without regular dependence of one part of his discourse on another. 2. One who recites or signs rhapsodies for a livelihood; or one who makes and repeats verses extempore. 3. Anciently, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Homer and other poets.
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