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encyclopædist, encyclopedist|ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. A compiler of or writer in an encyclopædia.
1651Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 278 Curtius had been scholar to Alstedius, the Encyclopedist. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain §1. 31 note, St. Isidore..was the Pliny, the Bede, the Encyclopedist of his age.
b. esp. one of the writers of the French Encyclopédie (see encyclopædia 2 b); often with a disparaging allusion to the tenets they promulgated.
1796Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Pref. 5 To have recourse to..the still more stupendous performance of the French Encyclopædists. 1800Month. Mag. VIII. 597 The encyclopedists undertook to new model..the old-fashioned religious..opinions of that country [France]. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 53 What Steam-engine..did these Encyclopedists invent for mankind?
2. One who attempts to deal with every branch of knowledge, or whose studies have a very extensive range.
1871Blackie Four Phases i. 132 Aristotle..like a true encyclopædist, was content to register the gods whom he had not the heart to worship. |