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scaraˈbæist
Also scarabe(e)ist.
[f. scarabæus + -ist.]
One who studies the Scarabæidæ.
See quot. 1872; in allusion to this passage the word is sometimes used derisively for a narrow specialist.
1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. ii, ‘I suppose you are an entomologist?’.. ‘Not quite so ambitious as that, sir... I am often spoken of as a Coleopterist,..but I have no right to so comprehensive a name... Call me a Scarabeeist if you will.’ 1883Athenæum 24 Mar. 380/1 If only it can convince the ‘scarabæist’ that there are realms of wonder and of interest beyond the limits of his own domain. |