performant

Definitions

Someone who performs something, such as a ritual; a performer.

obsolete, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“As my heart bears me full witness with what unalloyed satisfaction I should have⟳ seen this last⟳ duty in your hands or in D. Giddy's, so I feel⟳ myself permitted to avow the pain, yea, the sense⟳ of shame, with which I contemplate Dr. Stock⟳ as the performant.”

“That there is considerable drollery and fun in the work⟳, alike of the pencil and the pen in this morceau, it were idle to deny⟳. That the performant [Henry Louis Stephens] wields both with not a little freedom, nimbleness and ease, is obvious on inspection.”

“It would appear⟳ then that the Mycenaean lion-cult involved not only an animal oblation and a ὑδροφορία or λουτροφορία—in one case for the purpose of watering a sacred palm—but also a mimetic dance⟳. The performants of these several offices were dressed in artificial lion-skins, and probably called by the name⟳ of λέοντες.”

“If a performant happens to be on unfriendly terms with any one in the village, the performant does everything to get⟳ him reconciled long before the preparation is taken in hand.”

“Present-day musicologists in Rajasthan studying the Dev Nārāyaṇ or Pābūjī performance pay⟳ their performants by the hour.”

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