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polyhistor|pɒlɪˈhɪstə(r)|
Also 6 polihistor.
[a. Gr. πολυΐστωρ very learned, f. πολυ-, poly- + ἵστωρ (see history).]
A man of much or varied learning; a great scholar.
[1573–80G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 166 He hath bene countid heer..a πολυΐστωρ, and in deed is so commonly termid amongst us.] 1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 63 In poets, philosophers, polihistors, antiquaries, philologers, schoolemen, and other learned discoursers. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 453 So great a polyhistor as Ioseph Scaliger. 1885Masson Carlyle ii. 63 Himself a polyhistor or accomplished universal scholar.
So polyhiˈstorian = polyhistor; polyhiˈstoric a., of or pertaining to a polyhistor, widely erudite; polyˈhistory, the character or quality of a polyhistor, wide or varied learning.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. iii. 20 Alexander the *Polyhistorian cites this. 1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 808 He regrets the loss also of many Polyhistorians, as, Theopompus, Phavorinus, and Alexander Polyhistor.
1881Masson De Quincey xi. 137 Much of that *polyhistoric character, that multifariousness of out-of-the-way learning.
1819J. Richardson Kant's Logic 61 Mere *polyhistory is, so to say, learning which is cyclopic, or wants an eye—that of philosophy. 1869A. W. Ward tr. Curtius' Hist. Greece II. iii. iii. 509 Sophistry..thus necessarily led to a vain and superficial polyhistory, such as was most fully represented in the person of Hippias of Elis. |