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单词 dialist
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dialistn.

Brit. /ˈdʌɪəlɪst/, U.S. /ˈdaɪ(ə)ləst/
Forms: 1600s 1800s diallist, 1700s dyalist, 1700s– dialist.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dial n.1, -ist suffix.
Etymology: < dial n.1 + -ist suffix.
A maker of, or expert in, sundials.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > making or regulating > one who makes or regulates
clockmaker1374
horologer1496
regular1513
clocksmith1556
clock setter1574
clock keeper1576
clockman1613
clock master1629
dialler1650
dialist1652
horologiographian1688
clock winder1720
horologiographer1727
horologist1798
timer1876
1652 T. Stirrup (title) Horometria: or, the compleat diallist.
1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 346 Helps to a young Dyalist for his more orderly and quick making of Dyals.
1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. 1 The architect, the navigator, the dialist.
1805 D. Brewster Ferguson's Lect. Mech. (new ed.) II. 15 But lest the young dialist should have neither globe nor wooden scale..we shall now shew him how he may make a dial without any of these helps.
1883 W. Jolly Life J. Duncan xi. 102 John Duncan also became a theoretical and practical diallist, making dials for himself and his friends.
1917 Art World June 299/1 We all have a sympathetic feeling for the dialist who wrote: ‘The gods confound the man who first found out, how to distinguish hours’.
1962 Math. Teaching Oct. 490/2 Others were land surveyors, gaugers, dialists, gunners, engineers.
2004 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 1 Aug. g1 Clark, 56, is a dialist. He designs, collects and studies sundials.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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