humorist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours

   Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.

2. 2

   Someone subject to whims or fancies

   Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.

   • She and the duke used to rally me upon my fondness for lord W—m, who was a sort of an humourist, and apt to be in a pet, in which case he would leave the company, and go to bed by seven o'clock in the evening.
   • I called on him and found him a contemporary of Beauclerk and Langton at Trinity College, Oxford, and a man of reading and animation, but a kind of humourist.
3. 3

   A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.

   • Art Buchwald, who satirized the follies of the rich, the famous and the powerful for half a century as the most widely read newspaper humorist of his time, died Wednesday night in Washington.
   • But when it comes to conveying what made these people funny, what impact they had in their day and, especially, what debt they are owed by present-day humorists, Johnson doesn’t put much meat on the old bones.
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   1. 4

      One who studies or portrays the humours of people.

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