| 单词 | walking encyclopaedia |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswalking encyclopaedia b. Referring to a person who has great stores of knowledge at his or her command, as walking dictionary, walking encyclopaedia, walking library, etc. 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 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] uþwitec888 larewc900 learnerc900 witec900 wise manOE leredc1154 masterc1225 readera1387 artificer1449 man of science1482 rabbi1527 rabbin1531 worthy1567 artsmanc1574 philologer1588 artist1592 virtuoso1613 sophist1614 fulla1616 scholastica1633 philologist1638 gnostic1641 scholarian1647 pundit1661 scientman1661 savant1719 ollamh1723 maulvi1776 pandect1791 Sabora1797 erudit1800 mallam1829 Gelehrter1836 erudite1865 walking encyclopaedia1868 Einstein1942 1609 G. Chapman Euthymiae Raptus sig. C3 Let a Scholler, all earths volumes carrie, He will be but a walking dictionarie: A meere articulate Clocke, that doth but speake By others arts. 1686 J. Dunton Misc. Lett. (MS Rawl. D. 71) 91 I darken his Merit, if I call him less than a Walking Library. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 337 Mathew Slade..was..a stiff Enemy to the Socinians, and a walking Library. 1724 A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy ii. i, in Plays (ed. 3) IV. 25 The intolerable Lady, Madam Romance, that walking Library of profane Books is come to visit me. 1750 M. Clancy Memoirs I. 38 Mr. Dodwell.., a walking Library. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Gipsy v Heaven deliver me from the proximity of a walking dictionary of technical terms! 1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xii. 181 Meg..considered him a walking encyclopaedia of useful knowledge. 1908 A. S. Green Making of Irel. (1972) ii. xii. 441 The Jesuit Stephen White of Clonmel, a most renowned professor, nicknamed a Polyhistor and a Walking Library. 1978 Rugby World Apr. 28/3 Some other members of the Irish [rugby] squad..are walking encyclopaedias on English soccer in particular. 2003 E. M. Katz I can't believe I'm buying this Bk. 49 I understand that not everyone is a Rhodes scholar, a walking dictionary, or an English professor, but honestly, people, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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