Meaning of performant | Babel Free

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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