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Meaning of "epicist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EPICIST

ˈɛpɪsɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EPICIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Epicist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EPICIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of epicist in the English dictionary

The definition of epicist in the dictionary is one who writes epic poems.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EPICIST

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EPICIST

epicedian · epicedium · epicene · epicenism · epicenter · epicentral · epicentre · epicheirema · epichlorohydrin · epicier · epicism · epicleses · epiclesis · epicondyle · epicondylitis · epicontinental · epicotyl · epicranium · epicrisis · epicritic

WORDS THAT END LIKE EPICIST

aerodynamicist · Atlanticist · Celticist · cytogeneticist · exorcist · hydrodynamicist · hylicist · kenoticist · metaphysicist · molecular geneticist · mosaicist · neoclassicist · nuclear physicist · organicist · phallicist · psychicist · pyrrhicist · self-publicist · semanticist · technicist · theoretical physicist

Synonyms and antonyms of epicist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «epicist» into 25 languages

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epicist
1,325 millions of speakers
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narradora épica
570 millions of speakers
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epicist
510 millions of speakers
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epicist
380 millions of speakers
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الكاتبة البطولية
280 millions of speakers
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epicist
278 millions of speakers
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epicist
270 millions of speakers
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epicist
260 millions of speakers
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epicist
220 millions of speakers
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Epikis
190 millions of speakers
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Epiker
180 millions of speakers
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epicist
130 millions of speakers
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epicist
85 millions of speakers
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Epik
85 millions of speakers
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epicist
80 millions of speakers
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epicist
75 millions of speakers
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महाकाविका
75 millions of speakers
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epicist
70 millions of speakers
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epicist
65 millions of speakers
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epicist
50 millions of speakers
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epicist
40 millions of speakers
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epicist
30 millions of speakers
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epicist
15 millions of speakers
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epicist
14 millions of speakers
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epiker
10 millions of speakers
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epicist
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about epicist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPICIST»

Discover the use of epicist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to epicist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright
Not Shakespeare the minor epicist, but Shakespeare the major epicist. In 1579, Spenser had set the precedent for Elizabethan authors to present themselves as Virgilian pastoralists preparing for national epic, and Shakespeare in the ...
Patrick Cheney, Patrick Gerard Cheney, 2004
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Roman Epic
modish, their performances more often intended to provoke amusement rather than reflection. Modern defenders of Seneca the tragedian and of Statius the epicist can make persuasive enough cases for the 'seriousness' of each of them.
A. J. Boyle, 1996
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Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheater, and the ...
Z To call Ovid a tragedian is both to call him a poet and to highlight an aspect of his poetic career often overlooked in the predominant elegist—epicist—elegist arc. In view of this, my first chapter introduces strategies for reading Ovid as a tragic ...
Dan Curley, 2013
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Proceedings of International Symposium on Research, ...
This paper proposes and evaluates a character or symbol code infrastructure called EPICIST (Efficient, Programmable and Interchangeable Code Infrastructure for Symbols and Texts) for multilingual and multi-cultural information processing.
‎1997
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Crossroads in Literature and Culture
When Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, she was addressed by the committee as ''that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to ...
Jacek Fabiszak, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, Bartosz Wolski, 2012
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Holding the Line: Selected Essays in American Literature and ...
Is there here an obvious episte- mological evasion in this "concept of knowledge as culture," which produces an epicist narrative of origin within a set of anthropological and structural legitimations: the "story of man" plus "the facts"? In Gilbert ...
Clive Bush, 2009
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Latin Literature
If an epicist is comparable to a rhetorician or a historian, an epicist is discussable in terms appropriate to prose: and the terms appropriate to declamation and history are only occasionally appropriate to Virgil. We therefore have an alternative ...
E. J. Kenney, 1982
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Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic
Quintilian's exhaustive survey of Roman practitioners of the genre preserves no record of a female epicist (Inst. Or. 10. 1. 85-92), nor does the shorter catalogue of Roman writers of epic offered by Quintilian's contemporary Statius, himself an ...
A. M. Keith, 2000
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Propertius: "love" and "war" : Individual and State Under ...
Perhaps the possibility cannot be excluded that he ironically overemphasizes the trifling character (in the epicist's estimation) of his achievement. The praise ( laudent) which is to result in his lifetime shall be: he alone won his learned girl's ...
Hans-Peter Stahl, 1985
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Flavian Poetry
39 Elsewhere, too, writing the Silvae is presented as a break for the epicist: cf. 1.6 .1–3 and especially 1.5.1–14, analysed as a recusatio by Newlands 2002, 212–9 . In the preface to the first book of the Silvae (quoted above), the poet is likewise ...
Ruurd Robijn Nauta, Harm-Jan Van Dam, Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPICIST»

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The 100 best novels: No 81 – The Golden Notebook by Doris …
In its prize citation, the Swedish academy described her as “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
2
How Kora Was Born
... and he returned to the life of the itinerant poet/musician, keeper of the oral tradition, genealogist, and epicist. He has worked with symphonies ... «Brooklyn Rail, Apr 15»
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Doris Lessing's literary executors are on the hunt for new biographer
Holroyd admitted that the task before any biographer of the author, who was cited by the Nobel committee as an “epicist of the female ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
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Nobel Prize Winners for Literature: History
... Kingdom “That epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny. «Bloomberg, Oct 14»
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Heart for Africa :How Doris Lessing bequeathed personal library to …
She was garlanded in 2007 with a Nobel Prize in Literature, her writings acclaimed by the Swedish Academy as “that epicist of the female ... «Daily Sun, Aug 14»
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Colour, light & darkness
... by Homer and concludes that it is neither poetic licence nor blindness (Homer as a blind poet was, he held, a later construct) that drives the epicist to describe, ... «Frontline, Jan 14»
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Doris Lessing: a gloriously odd writer who never held back
She was equally forthright when awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007. The Academy had described her as “that epicist of the female experience”. «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 13»
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We Don't Have to Love Doris Lessing, But We Should Admire Her
When informed by Time that the Nobel committee had called her “the epicist of the female experience,” she responded, “Well, they had to say ... «In These Times, Nov 13»
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Why Everyone Should Explore Doris Lessing's Often Overlooked …
The Nobel Committee praised her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a ... «Motherboard, Nov 13»
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Doris Lessing dies at 94; British novelist of the 'female experience'
The Nobel committee called her an "epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided ... «Los Angeles Times, Nov 13»
REFERENCE
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