publicistn.

Brit.

/ˈpʌblᵻsɪst/, U.S.

/ˈpəbləsəst/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from German. Etymons: French publiciste; German Publicist.

Etymology: Partly < French publiciste expert on public law (1748), journalist (1789), publicity agent (although this sense is apparently first attested slightly later than in English: 1906; < public public adj. -iste -ist suffix), and partly < German †Publicist (now Publizist ) expert on public law (1680 or earlier; now obsolete), writer on contemporary public issues, also editor of a newspaper or journal (second half of the 18th cent., probably after French; apparently < post-classical Latin publicista expert on public law (cited by J. Grimm & W. Grimm Deutsches Wörterbuch at Publizist; < classical Latin pūblicum (in iūs pūblicum public law: see public law n.) + -ista -ist suffix)).

1. An expert or writer on the law of nations or international law.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > in specific branches or kinds of law

civiliana1425

civilistc1550

common lawyer1552

Justinianist1588

tenurist1588

commoner1591

feudist1607

criminalista1631

criminista1631

Romanist1647

pundit1661

antecessor1753

constitutionalist1766

civil1776

publicist1795

codist1831

theologo-jurista1843

internationalist1855

Sabinian1862

Pandectist1895

1795 A. Hamilton in Ann. 3rd Congr. 1st Sess. 1366 Some of the most approved publicists..say [the income of lands] may be sequestered to ‘hinder the remittance of it to the enemy's country’.

1801 H. C. Robinson Diary (1869) I. v. 113 A distinguished publicist, to use the German term, the eminent political writer and statesman Friedrich Gentz.

1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 307 The cheapness of food is..justly considered by Vattel, and the publicists, as a chief purpose of political association.

1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. x. 126 Problems which baffle the publicist and amaze the economist.

1904 Columbia Law Rev. 4 417 The statement of a foreign publicist, with whose work neither judge nor advocate is over-familiar.

1936 Times 10 Dec. 15/5 It is as if a thoroughly responsible statesman or publicist were speaking.

1991 Harvard Law Rev. 104 1492 Publicists have presupposed that extrapolations from rules of customary international law coincide with the shared interests of the individual states.

2. A writer on contemporary public issues; a journalist who writes chiefly on current affairs. Occasionally depreciative.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > political journalist

scribe1766

publicist1833

lobby correspondent1886

1833 Westm. 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.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §2. 752 The hacks of Grub Street were superseded by publicists of a high moral temper and literary excellence.

1895 Athenæum 6 July 25/3 The influence of the publicist polemics of the year.

1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 122/2 Such sound reasoning, however, seems beyond the powers of the syndicate publicists in Washington.

1956 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical 82 John A. Hobson,..a publicist with immense stores of knowledge, poise of mind, and yet radical philosophy and gifts of journalistic expression.

1991 German Hist. 9 310 Brandt began an active second career as a publicist, producing more than twenty books and over 175 periodical articles on topics concerning East Asia, China, Japan, and current events.

3. A press or publicity agent; a person who promotes or publicizes a person, company, concept, etc., esp. to the news media. Cf. self-publicist n. at self- prefix 1c(b).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > business of advertising > [noun] > activities of press agents > press or publicity agent

press agent1814

press secretary1880

publicist1904

press officer1915

publicitor1935

flack1946

huckster1946

flackman1966

promo man1977

1904 N.Y. Times 23 Dec. 9 (advt.) Most people know..the old-fashioned press agent, but lately there has been evolved a new species, who calls himself by a fine name. How he has raised his business to a fine art David Hale tells..in his [forthcoming] article on The Gentle Art of the Publicist.

1930 Oxf. 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.

1971 Ld. Butler Art of Possible viii. 157 The less voluble and extrovert Hall, to act as vulgarisateur or publicist for his ideas.

2001 Independent 11 July i. 12/3 A glamorous young publicist speeds out to the Hamptons for a weekend of nightclubbing and schmoozing with her celebrity clients.

Derivatives

publiˈcistic adj. of or relating to publicists; of the nature of publicity or propaganda.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journalist > [adjective] > political journalist

publicistic1827

1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 150 To divide his Biography, as Moser did his Publicistic Materials, into separate letter-boxes.

1894 Athenæum 10 Nov. 634/2 Of publicistic and photographic accounts of Japan..we have more than enough.

1942 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 36 455 The publicistic assertions of the organic nature of the Union and the nation in the years following the war raise a number of questions.

1997 A. V. Knowles Leo Tolstoy: Crit. Heritage Pref. p. xiv [The book is] restricted primarily to criticism of Tolstoy's works of imaginative fiction; consequently there is little comment on his writings of a political, social, religious, publicistic, or educational nature.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	publicist
释义	publicistn. Brit. /ˈpʌblᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˈpəbləsəst/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from German. Etymons: French publiciste; German Publicist. Etymology: Partly < French publiciste expert on public law (1748), journalist (1789), publicity agent (although this sense is apparently first attested slightly later than in English: 1906; < public public adj. -iste -ist suffix), and partly < German †Publicist (now Publizist ) expert on public law (1680 or earlier; now obsolete), writer on contemporary public issues, also editor of a newspaper or journal (second half of the 18th cent., probably after French; apparently < post-classical Latin publicista expert on public law (cited by J. Grimm & W. Grimm Deutsches Wörterbuch at Publizist; < classical Latin pūblicum (in iūs pūblicum public law: see public law n.) + -ista -ist suffix)). 1. An expert or writer on the law of nations or international law. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > in specific branches or kinds of law civiliana1425 civilistc1550 common lawyer1552 Justinianist1588 tenurist1588 commoner1591 feudist1607 criminalista1631 criminista1631 Romanist1647 pundit1661 antecessor1753 constitutionalist1766 civil1776 publicist1795 codist1831 theologo-jurista1843 internationalist1855 Sabinian1862 Pandectist1895 1795 A. Hamilton in Ann. 3rd Congr. 1st Sess. 1366 Some of the most approved publicists..say [the income of lands] may be sequestered to ‘hinder the remittance of it to the enemy's country’. 1801 H. C. Robinson Diary (1869) I. v. 113 A distinguished publicist, to use the German term, the eminent political writer and statesman Friedrich Gentz. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 307 The cheapness of food is..justly considered by Vattel, and the publicists, as a chief purpose of political association. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. x. 126 Problems which baffle the publicist and amaze the economist. 1904 Columbia Law Rev. 4 417 The statement of a foreign publicist, with whose work neither judge nor advocate is over-familiar. 1936 Times 10 Dec. 15/5 It is as if a thoroughly responsible statesman or publicist were speaking. 1991 Harvard Law Rev. 104 1492 Publicists have presupposed that extrapolations from rules of customary international law coincide with the shared interests of the individual states. 2. A writer on contemporary public issues; a journalist who writes chiefly on current affairs. Occasionally depreciative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > political journalist scribe1766 publicist1833 lobby correspondent1886 1833 Westm. 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. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §2. 752 The hacks of Grub Street were superseded by publicists of a high moral temper and literary excellence. 1895 Athenæum 6 July 25/3 The influence of the publicist polemics of the year. 1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 122/2 Such sound reasoning, however, seems beyond the powers of the syndicate publicists in Washington. 1956 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical 82 John A. Hobson,..a publicist with immense stores of knowledge, poise of mind, and yet radical philosophy and gifts of journalistic expression. 1991 German Hist. 9 310 Brandt began an active second career as a publicist, producing more than twenty books and over 175 periodical articles on topics concerning East Asia, China, Japan, and current events. 3. A press or publicity agent; a person who promotes or publicizes a person, company, concept, etc., esp. to the news media. Cf. self-publicist n. at self- prefix 1c(b). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > business of advertising > [noun] > activities of press agents > press or publicity agent press agent1814 press secretary1880 publicist1904 press officer1915 publicitor1935 flack1946 huckster1946 flackman1966 promo man1977 1904 N.Y. Times 23 Dec. 9 (advt.) Most people know..the old-fashioned press agent, but lately there has been evolved a new species, who calls himself by a fine name. How he has raised his business to a fine art David Hale tells..in his [forthcoming] article on The Gentle Art of the Publicist. 1930 Oxf. 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. 1971 Ld. Butler Art of Possible viii. 157 The less voluble and extrovert Hall, to act as vulgarisateur or publicist for his ideas. 2001 Independent 11 July i. 12/3 A glamorous young publicist speeds out to the Hamptons for a weekend of nightclubbing and schmoozing with her celebrity clients. Derivatives publiˈcistic adj. of or relating to publicists; of the nature of publicity or propaganda. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [adjective] > political journalist publicistic1827 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 150 To divide his Biography, as Moser did his Publicistic Materials, into separate letter-boxes. 1894 Athenæum 10 Nov. 634/2 Of publicistic and photographic accounts of Japan..we have more than enough. 1942 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 36 455 The publicistic assertions of the organic nature of the Union and the nation in the years following the war raise a number of questions. 1997 A. V. Knowles Leo Tolstoy: Crit. Heritage Pref. p. xiv [The book is] restricted primarily to criticism of Tolstoy's works of imaginative fiction; consequently there is little comment on his writings of a political, social, religious, publicistic, or educational nature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1795
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