单词 | popularizer |
释义 | popularizern. A person who increases the popularity of another person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > simplifying, popularization > [noun] > one who popularizes or simplifies familiarizer1696 simplificator1829 popularizer1831 simplicist1891 exotericist1954 1831 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 864 The two orders of men of Letters, the distributors & popularizers of knowledge.., and the Advancers or Perfectors. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 523 One of the most successful popularizers of science. 1878 Times 3 Dec. 7/3 If Mr. Lewes is to be spoken of as a popularizer of some of the best ideas of his time, let it be at least owned that he was among the most successful in a difficult art. 1919 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism I. i. vi. 80 Adam Smith and Abraham Tucker's populariser, Paley, either use and interpret natural law in a conservative sense or draw its social-revolutionary teeth. 1974 Nature 30 Aug. 754/1 The populariser of science, as he functions today, cannot disseminate the subtle ideas of science. 1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 39/1 This is a tall order, but, in the hands of a talented populariser, like Barrow, the result is a heady brew, thought-provoking and illuminating. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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