[a. L. versificātor (whence also It. versificatore, Sp., Pg. versificador, F. versificateur), f. versificāre to versify.] One who writes verse; a poet, versifier.
1611. Cotgr., Versificateur, a versificator, versifier, maker of verses.
1682. Shadwell, Medal, Ep. A j b. His Fort is, that he is an indifferent good Versificator.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, Ded. p. xi. Statius, the best Versificator next to Virgil.
1746. W. Horsley, Fool (1748), I. 15. The Sons of Imagination, whether Lovers or … Prose-Writers, or Versificators.
1760. Jortin, Erasm., II. 105. Erasmus was very far from being as mean a poet as this versificator.
1805. Edin. Rev., VI. 291. The system, upon which a certain sect of versificators have lately proceeded.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 477. Alliterations and epithets … with mechanical versificators are a mere artifice.
