单词 | monographer |
释义 | monographern. The author of a treatise on a single (esp. scientific) subject. Cf. monograph n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] > monograph > one who writes monographer1770 monographist1822 1770 G. White Let. 8 Oct. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 132 Every kingdom, every province, should have it's own monographer. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlviii. 425 Apollodorus..was the first monographer of insects. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 825/2 Few existing birds offer a better subject for a monographer [than the kakapo]. 1905 Speaker 11 Mar. 565/1 It is impossible to imagine two subjects more attractive to the intending monographer than Matthew Arnold and Sidney Smith. 1975 New Phytologist 74 369 Monographers of the Hawaiian flora have suggested that they deserve generic rank. 1993 Rhodora 95 225 This taxon has not been accepted as a species by a number of recent compilers and monographers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1770 |
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