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One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden. Poet laureate. See und…

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

The works of a poetaster. [R.]

A female poet.

Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments. Shak.

In a poetic manner.

The principles and rules of the art of poetry. J. Warton.

A poetaster. Swinburne.

To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize. I versify the truth, not poetize. Donne.

as by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

ombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

The state or personality of a poet. [R.]

Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.

Expressing character. [Obs.] Urquhart.

Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

Producing diseases. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.

Producing, or favoring the production of, urine.

Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic] In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt. Milton.

An abrupt place. [Poetic] "Over the vast abrupt." Milton.