POET

poet. poet, (g) a verse maker

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POET. → Greek Ac 17:28; Tit 1:12 → See POETRY → See PSALMS → See SONGS

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Po″et (?), n. [[F. poëte, L. poëta, fr. Gr. �, fr. � to make. Cf. Poem.]] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden. Poet laureate. See under Laureate.