versificator (vers if ikat or)

[F. versifica teur = Sp. Pg. vers if i cad or = It. vers if i cat ore, I must farther add that Statius, the best versificator next to Virgil, knew not how to design after him, though he had the model in his eye. Dryden, E ay on Satire. Alliteration and epithets, which with mechanical vers i ficators are a mere artifice,. charm by their consonance when they rise out of the emotions of the true poet. I. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., II. 128. versificatrix (ver'si-fi-ka-triks), n. [L. as if * versificatrix, fem. of versificator: see versifica tor.] A woman who makes verses. [Rare.] In 1784 Beattie, writing of Hannah More, says that Johnson "told me, with great solemnity, that she was 'the most powerful vers if i cat riz ' in the English language." Athenæum , No. 3244, p. 894. [ versify + -er1.] 1. who makes verses; a