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3 definitions found 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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