fustianist

English

Etymology

fustian +‎ -ist

Noun

fustianist (plural fustianists)

  1. A writer of fustian, or pompous writing.
    • 1642 April​, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 193:
      and in their choice preferring the gay rankneſs of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any modern Suſtianiſt, before the native Latiniſms of Cicero.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fustianist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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