单词 | encyclopaedism |
释义 | encyclopaedismencyclopedismn. 1. Encyclopædic learning; the possession of the whole range of knowledge. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > large amount of knowledge > [noun] > possession of universality1605 polymathy1642 all-knowingness1674 pansophia1674 pansophy1792 polyhistory1799 multiscience1816 encyclopaedism1833 universalism1838 omnisciencea1845 know-everythingism1855 pansophism1868 1833 T. Carlyle Diderot in Misc. V. 45 This exaggerated laudation of Encyclopedism. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. i. i. 6 Not that he [Gower] sets up for Encyclopædism; on the contrary, he laments..the scantiness of his knowledge. 2. The doctrines of the Encyclopædists (see encyclopaedist n. 1b). ΚΠ 1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 102 A time of Tithe Controversy, Encyclopedism, Catholic Rent, Philanthropism, and the Revolution of Three Days! 1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II French philosophy, with us, is still synonymous with Encyclopedism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1833 |
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