单词 | encyclopaedist |
释义 | encyclopaedistencyclopedistn. 1. a. A compiler of or writer in an encyclopædia. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > compiling (a work) > one who > of specific kind of work encyclopaedist1651 encyclopaediast1818 encyclopaedian1834 manualist1897 1651 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 278 Curtius had been scholar to Alstedius, the Encyclopedist. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 31 St. Isidore..was the Pliny, the Bede, the encyclopedist of his age. b. esp. one of the writers of the French Encyclopédie (see encyclopaedia n. 2b); often with a disparaging allusion to the tenets they promulgated. ΚΠ 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Pref. 5 To have recourse to..the still more stupendous performance of the French Encyclopædists. 1800 Monthly Mag. 8 597 The encyclopedists undertook to new model..the old-fashioned religious..opinions of that country [France]. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 472 What Steam-engine..did these Encyclopedists invent for mankind? 2. One who attempts to deal with every branch of knowledge, or whose studies have a very extensive range. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > large amount of knowledge > [noun] > possession of > one who has or claims polyhistor1588 omniscian1593 walking dictionary1609 polymathist1621 polymath1624 callent1637 polyhistorian1669 at-all1672 omniscient1710 universalist1713 dictionary1734 know-all1800 Crichton1807 pantologist1840 pansophist1864 encyclopaedist1871 know-it-all1873 omniscientist1932 pointy-head1969 1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 132 Aristotle..like a true encyclopædist, was content to register the gods whom he had not the heart to worship. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1651 |
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