[f. LEGEND sb. + -IST.] A writer of legends.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 472. Lying Legendists.
1832. Southey, Lett. (1856), IV. 312. This was decidedly an invention of the legendist.
1859. Riley, Liber Albus, Pref. 10. The Legendist … the Romancer, and the Poet.
