harmonist

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English

Etymology

From harmony +‎ -ist. Compare French harmoniste.

Noun

harmonist (plural harmonists)

  1. One who shows the agreement of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four Biblical evangelists.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:
      The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.
  3. (music) One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a composer.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “harmonist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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