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One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.

Conformed to popery. [Obs.] "Papized writers." Fuller.

A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.

A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

A collector or writer of proverbs. [R.]

ng. Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To climb Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]

One who writes a parody; one who parodies. Coleridge.

To write a parody upon; to burlesque. I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace. Pope.

sistance of the muscles which ordinarily move the part. -- Passive obedience (as used by writers on government), obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a duty in all cases to the existing government. -- Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual facult…

A break or paragraph in writing. He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke.

ant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens." Fuller.

ty or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.

One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

One who pens; a writer. Sir T. North.

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

A female writer; an authoress. Johnson.

One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.

nderstood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements. "The purpose is perspicuous." Shak. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ness, n.

To write or speak in the style of a philippic.