Meanings
nounsyncopist (plural syncopists)
plural syncopists
- Someone who syncopates.
in order to outshine all the modern race of Syncopists, and thoroughly content my English readers, I intend shortly to publish a Spectator, that shall not have a single vowel in it .
1714 July 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “TUESDAY, July 14, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 567; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC
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