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metrist

/me-trist, mee-trist/US // ˈmɛ trɪst, ˈmi trɪst //UK // (ˈmɛtrɪst) //

计量师,计量员,计量学家,医师

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.

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Examples

  • It readily appears that Chaucer was a great metrist, and bestowed many new forms of metre upon our literature.

  • He was our first great metrist, and has frequent references to his poetical art.

  • As a metrist, therefore, Ramsay can claim little or no attention.

  • In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.

  • Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.