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publicist|ˈpʌblɪsɪst|
[a. F. publiciste (1762 in Dict. Acad.), Ger. publicist, f. L. (jus) public-um public law: see -ist.]
1. One who is learned in ‘public’ or international law (public a. 9); a writer on the law of nations.
1792Burke Pres. St. Affairs Wks. VII. 99 The two German courts seem to have as little consulted the publicists of Germany, as their own true interests. 1801H. C. Robinson Diary (1869) I. v. 113 A distinguished publicist, to use the German term, the eminent political writer and statesman Friedrich Gentz. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 307 The cheapness of food is..justly considered by Vattel, and the publicists, as a chief purpose of political association. 1861N. Brit. Rev. May 173 Plato was a publicist when he wrote the Laws and the Republic; Aristotle was a publicist when he wrote the Politics;..Machiavel was a publicist in the Prince, Hobbes in the Leviathan, Montesquïeu in the ‘Esprit des Lois’. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. x. (1876) 128 Problems which baffle the publicist and amaze the economist.
2. loosely. A writer on current public topics; a journalist who makes political matters his speciality.
1833Westm. Rev. Jan. 195 We hear of editors, reporters, writers in newspapers, and sometimes ‘publicists’, a neological term; but the world..does not assign the definite meanings to these terms. 1863S. Edwards Polish Captivity I. 78 Certain German publicists point with an air of triumph to the fact that Prussia has constructed a railroad from Posen to Breslau. 1874Green Short Hist. x. §2. 752 The hacks of Grub Street were superseded by publicists of a high moral temper and literary excellence.
attrib.1895P. Milyoukov in Athenæum 6 July 25/3 The influence of the publicist polemics of the year.
3. A press or publicity agent.
1930Oxford Times 4 Apr. 7/4 This is the experience of Sir Charles Higham, the famous publicist, who celebrated his 21st anniversary as an advertising agent in Fleet⁓street on Wednesday. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 4 Nov. 9/4 Most of the testimony..was given by Paul H. De Kruff, bacteriologist and medical publicist. 1969R. Blythe Akenfield ii. 60 Well-printed signs of expert publicist talents being employed to disseminate the new caritas. 1977Times 12 Feb. 12/6 Mr William Camp's appointment as publicist of the railways... He and his company..will apparently become the overlords of BR publicity.
Hence publiˈcistic a., of or pertaining to publicists. So ˈpublicism, the occupation or profession of a publicist; public journalism.
1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. III. 150 To divide his Biography, as Moser did his Publicistic Materials, into separate letter-boxes. 1875Poste Gaius i. Comm. (ed. 2) 127 The political or publicistic elements of civitas. 1885Society in London 279 He has taken up publicism as he has taken up many other things. 1894Athenæum 10 Nov. 634/2 Of publicistic and photographic accounts of Japan..we have more than enough. |