[f. L. lacrima tear + -IST.] One addicted to tears; a weeper.
1620. J. Melton, Astrolog., 18. These Gold-engendring Chymists, are Archymists, rather Lechymists, and make all those that follow them, Lachrymists.
1660. trans. Paracelsus’ Archidoxis, I. x. 135. The Lacrymists, that gape on Gold.
1848. Blackw. Mag., LXIV. 229. Yet the man who could move an audience to tears … was any thing but a lachrymist by temperament.
