encyclopedist
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8.8
- noun
- /ˌɛn.sɪ.kləˈpiː.dɪst/
- Paraphrasing a sentence of Pauw's, the great Encyclopedist Abb Raynal famously opined: "America has not yet produced a good poet, an able mathematician, one man of genius in a single art or a single science."
Examples
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There is not any controversy over this definition, not among dictionaries and lexicographers, English linguists, encyclopedias and encyclopedists.
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The following is an entry reprinted from The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror, written by the World Fantasy Convention 2012 Encyclopedist Guest of Honor, John Clute.
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Certainly, there must exist encyclopedists who know the dates and names of these inventors.
Fiction book (2000) -
Pliny and Macrobius were encyclopedists.
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To these, Hayek opposed the intellectuals of the French Enlightenment, which included the Encyclopedists, the Physiocrats, Condorcet, and especially Rousseau.
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Both Rousseau and Froebel, of course, had predecessors, notably the seventeenth-century Protestant (Moravian) encyclopedist John Amos.
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While images of the latest styles proliferated in Paris and throughout the provinces, intellectuals and writers ranging from the Encyclopedists to moralists addressed the matter with increasing urgency.
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An accomplished encyclopedist, she has contributed numerous articles to many well-known encyclopedias.
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The encyclopedist spent years compiling the latest scientific discoveries into a comprehensive volume.
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As an encyclopedist, his role involves writing detailed entries about historical events for the encyclopedia.
Synonyms
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A person who creates books, articles, or stories
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A person who chooses and corrects the final text in a newspaper, magazine, or book
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5.4
A person who collects and puts together information from different sources for a book or report
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A person who edits or adds information to Wikipedia
Antonyms
How Scholarly
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290
4.1
635
2.7
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3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
encyclopedist = encyclopedia (transparent) = encyclopedia + ist
Formed by the productive agentive suffix '-ist' added to the standalone noun 'encyclopedia'; learners who know 'encyclopedia' can infer a person associated with it.
Etymology
Encyclopedist comes from the Greek words enkyklios ('circle') and paideia ('education') and has the same root as encyclopedia. So an encyclopedist gathers and explains a full 'circle' of knowledge, which is why the word means someone who makes or edits an encyclopedia.