| 单词 | polyhistory |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolyˈhistory polyˈhistory n. [originally after German Polyhistorei , with derogatory connotations (1794 in the passage translated in quot. 1799 as Polyhistorey; compare Polyhistorie, with a more neutral sense (1744))] the character or quality of a polyhistor; wide or varied learning. 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 1799 P. Will tr. A. Knigge Pract. Philos. Social Life II. xii. 173 The fatal polyhistory [Ger. Polyhistorey], the rage of being thought to know something of every thing. 1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. iii. iii. 509 Sophistry..thus necessarily led to a vain and superficial polyhistory, such as was most fully represented in the person of Hippias of Elis. 1996 Afr. Amer. Rev. 30 672/2 Calhoun's acquisition and dispensation of polyhistory derives from his rebirth experience with the Allmuseri. < as lemmas |
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