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oriˈentalist [f. as prec. + -ist.] †1. A member of the Eastern or Greek Church.
1683Cave Ecclesiastici, Hilary 205 He found..the Western Prelates..vex'd into compliance, and the Orientalists forc'd to go the same way. †2. = oriental B. 3. Obs.
1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 423 Thinking that the Orientalists had a genius more subtile and metaphysical than the Greeks. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 311 He..supposed, like orientalists, they wrote from the right to the left. 3. One versed in oriental languages and literature.
1779–81Johnson L.P., Smith Wks. II. 465 The great Orientalist, Dr. Pocock. 1879Addr. Pres. Philol. Soc. 4 The Congress of Orientalists at Florence. |