[ad. L. citharista, a. Gr. κιθαριστής, f. κιθάρα.] A player on the cithara.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., III. 193. The Kingis musitioner, called his cythariste.
1775. R. Chandler, Trav. Asia Minor (1825), I. 242. That thirty boys of good family be chosen to go daily in procession … with the citharist and herald, to sing a hymn.
