zoilisthttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoilist_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZoilist, n.
First published 1921; not fully revised

Zoilistnoun

  1. 1594–
    An imitator of Zoilus, a carping critic.
    Stressed as ˈZoilist.
    1. 1594
      The ploddinger sort of vnlearned Zoilists about London, exclaim, that it is a puft-up stile.
      T. Nashe, Christs Teares (new edition) To Reader
    2. 1694
      Some prevaricating Zoilist will arraign my Hypothesis.
      R. Franck, Northern Memoirs Preface p. xxvii
    3. 1716
      Polydore Virgil, Dr. John Cay, with other Zoilists, reported that his Poetical Wit made him so conceited.
      M. Davies, Athenæ Britannicæ vol. II. 87
    4. a1849
      The same class of fastidious wits who in France became Zoilists, in England were the stoutest stickers to Homer.
      H. Coleridge, Essays & Marginalia (1851) vol. II. 75

Originally published as part of the entry for Zoilus, n.

Zoilus, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.