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Definition of Calligraphist
1. Noun. Someone skilled in penmanship.
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Derivative terms: Calligraph, Calligraphy, Calligraph, Calligraphy
Definition of Calligraphist
1. n. A calligrapher
Definition of Calligraphist
1. Noun. calligrapher ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calligraphist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calligraphist
Literary usage of Calligraphist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Chinese Art by John Calvin Ferguson (1919)
"His brother Su Ch'e (AD 1039-1112) was a great calligraphist, ... The other
illustrious name is that of Mi Fei, official, artist, and calligraphist. ..."
2. An introduction to the writings of the New Testament, tr. by D.G. Wait by Johann Leonhard von Hug (1827)
"It will not be objected to me, that the calligraphist may have probably conceived
the idea of imitating a more ancient character. ..."
3. Chinese Painters: A Critical Study by Raphaël Petrucci (1920)
"Under such conditions the technical relationship between the line of the painter
and that of the calligraphist was closer, since painter and calligraphist ..."
4. A Chinese Biographical Dictionary by Herbert Allen Giles (1898)
"A Chinese Biographical Dictionary -^ j||* Ch'ang-she in Anhui, famous for his
skill as a calligraphist in the li style. After studying for a couple of years ..."
5. Scraps from a Collector's Note Book: Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of by Friedrich Hirth (1905)
"... from the name of his prefecture) was born in 1508 in T'ai-tsang near Soochow
and died in 1677. He was a grandson of the writer aud calligraphist Wang ..."
6. The Historic Origin of the Bible: A Handbook of Principal Facts from the by Edwin Cone Bissell (1889)
"... notarius; the beautiful writer, librarius or calligraphist, who carefully
transcribed what the former had hastily taken down; and the corrector, ..."
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