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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Humorist \Hu"mor*ist\, n. [Cf. F. humoriste.]
1. (Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the
humors.
2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character,
which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in
all parts of his life. --Addison.
3. One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has
a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.
The reputation of wits and humorists. --Addison.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
humorist
n : acts speaks or writes in an amusing way [syn: {humourist}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar
austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with
his best wishes, cat-quick.
Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind
See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined --
Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray,
His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day
He thinks, admitted to an equal sty,
A graceful hog would bear his company.
Alexander Poke
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