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deipnosophist|daɪpˈnɒsəfɪst|
[ad. Gr. δειπνοσοϕιστ-ής ‘one learned in the mysteries of the kitchen’, f. δεῖπνον the chief meal, dinner + σοϕιστής a master of his craft, clever or wise man, sophist. The pl. δειπνοσοϕισταί was the title of a celebrated work of the Greek Athenæus, written after a.d. 228.]
A master of the art of dining: taken from the title of the Greek work of Athenæus, in which a number of learned men are represented as dining together and discussing subjects which range from the dishes before them to literary criticism and miscellaneous topics of every description.
1656Blount Glossogr., Deipnosophists, Athenæus his great learned books carry that title. 1774Burney Hist. Mus. I. 229 (Jod.) To render credible the following assertion of a deipnosophist in Athenæus. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain I. i. 70 Spanish Cookery, a..subject which is well worth the inquiry of any antiquarian deipnosophist. 1866Lowell Swinburne's Trag. Prose Wks. 1890 II. 135 With about as much nature in it as a dialogue of the Deipnosophists.
Hence deipnosoˈphistic a., deipˈnosophism.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 23 Diverse other things..belonging to cookery, are here omitted, as belonging to the dypnosophistick art. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 1 Let me..luxuriate in the..paradisaical department of deipnosophism. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 336 An elegy..appended to that deipnosophistic dissertation. |