Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who writes for or compiles an encyclopedia.
- noun One of the writers of the French Encyclopédie (1751–1772), including its editors, Diderot and d'Alembert.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is engaged in the compilation of an encyclopedia.
- noun Specifically
- noun In French literature, one of the collaborators in the great Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert (1751-65).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.
- noun the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Rousseau.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of a group of French authors who collaborated in the 18th century in the production of the Encyclopédie, under the direction of Denis Diderot.
- noun A person helping to write an
encyclopedia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who compiles information for encyclopedias
Etymologies
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Examples
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The encyclopedist Findling said trumpeting colonial might was a primary motivation to host early world's fairs.
Can the Shanghai Expo compete with world's fairs of the past? 2010
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Hrabanus Maurus, the great encyclopedist of the ninth century, mentions one night of an eclipse, when “such a great shouting arose among the people that its irreligious sound penetrated to the heavens.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Hrabanus Maurus, the great encyclopedist of the ninth century, mentions one night of an eclipse, when “such a great shouting arose among the people that its irreligious sound penetrated to the heavens.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Hrabanus Maurus, the great encyclopedist of the ninth century, mentions one night of an eclipse, when “such a great shouting arose among the people that its irreligious sound penetrated to the heavens.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Hrabanus Maurus, the great encyclopedist of the ninth century, mentions one night of an eclipse, when “such a great shouting arose among the people that its irreligious sound penetrated to the heavens.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Then he paused a second to add that, of course, Goethe, like the encyclopedist Diderot, was a novelist on the side.
Yellow Dining Room 2010
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By the time he died, he had produced, essentially single-handedly, seventeen immense volumes, marking him as the greatest one-man encyclopedist ever.
The Man Who Loved China: Summary and book reviews of The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester. 2008
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He was the nephew of Pliny the Elder a known encyclopedist.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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He was the nephew of Pliny the Elder a known encyclopedist.
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Among the worthies depicted: the poet, dramatist and philosopher Voltaire and the great encyclopedist Denis Diderot, both by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-85), and the philosopher and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Houdon, who is far better known for his work in terra cotta and marble.
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