versifier (versifier)

One who versifies; one poet. version Ther is a vers if i our seith that the ydel man excuseth hym in wynter by cause of the grete coold and in somer by enchesoun of the heete. Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. There haue beene many most excellent Poets that neuer versified, and now swarme many versifiers that neede neuer aunswere to the name of Poets. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie (ed. Arber), p. 28. 2. One who expre es in verse the ideas of another; one who turns prose into verse; a maker of a metrical paraphrase: as, a versifier of the Psalms.