| 单词 | thoughtsman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthoughtsman thoughtsman n. [after draughtsman n., etc.] now rare a (serious) thinker. ΚΠ 1842 E. Miall Non-conformist Sketch-bk. 255 One whom we shall venture to designate a thoughtsman for the rest..whose..business it shall be..to make himself..acquainted with truth..for the common benefit. 1854 Brit. Controversialist 5 245 The foregoing brief and rapid survey of the lives and labours of the world's earliest philosophic thoughtsmen. 1875 T. Skinner Homœopathy 10 The whole system seemed to me..so preposterous..as that no ordinary thoughtsman could be blamed if he refused to give it even a hearing. 1966 J. Allen tr. R. Mengin No Laurels for de Gaulle (1971) 182 This friend always seemed to be able to enlighten me on the General's deepest thoughts, so I dubbed him the Porte-pensée. (I know that this comes out clumsily in English as ‘Thoughtsman’, but the meaning seems clear enough.) < as lemmas |
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