Word Meanings - FUSTIANIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A writer of fustian. Milton.

Related words: (words related to FUSTIANIST)

• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• FUSTIAN
  It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• FUSTIANIST
  A writer of fustian. Milton.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• NEWS-WRITER
  One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.
• TYPEWRITER
  1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument.