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A writer of an ode or odes.

One without method; a quack. [Obs.]

One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.

A codifier; a maker of codes. [R.]

A composer or singer of melodies.

Of or pertaining to the sect of Methodists; as, Methodist hymns; a Methodist elder.

Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis"tic*al*ly, adv.

One who follows the fashion.

A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.

A writer of a monody.

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

One skilled in prosody.

One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.

who makes and repeats verses extempore. The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto. Carlyle.

An adherent to a synod. These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes. Fuller.

One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.

In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

, a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefty by Methodists. It usualy last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages. -- Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back. -- Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body o…

ablished in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

rawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.