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单词 walking encyclopaedia
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walking 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.
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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.].
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