encyclopaedist

Varro, a kind of encyclopaedist, wrote a _De Re Rustica_, also a work on the Latin language, _Menippic Satires_ -- satires it is true, but mixtures of prose and verse -- and a work on _Roman Life_, as well as a crowd of small books dealing with every possible subject.

Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

Here was a polymath with a free-ranging and formidable intellect: not only did he make significant breakthroughs as a philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, but he also left his mark as a theologian, encyclopaedist, linguist, historian, geographer, pharmacist and physician.

Medieval Sciences in the Islamic World 2008

"You're a veritable walking encyclopaedist, Lieutenant, " Vuillard said, 'so tell me what damage your shells did today?

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

As a matter of fact, quite a number of his plots are swamped by what he forces into them with the zeal of an encyclopaedist.

Balzac 2003

He is in short a _semeur d'idées-force_ rather than an encyclopaedist or a system-maker.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

I venture to affirm, in language of the most explicitness, that physical science can know absolutely nothing about morality; that ethics are a matter of profound indifference to it, that, as Diderot, the encyclopaedist -- certainly not suspect in such matters -- says, "To science there can be no question of the unclean or the unchaste".

Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

As a matter of fact, quite a number of his plots are swamped by what he forces into them with the zeal of an encyclopaedist.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

The spacious rooms within it have some literary interest, as at one time occupied by Ephraim Chambers, the encyclopaedist (1680-1750), and by the more famous Oliver Goldsmith.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less George Worley

The trio arrived in Paris in November, and were greatly befriended by their countryman, Grimm, the encyclopaedist, secretary to the Duke of

Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands

An encyclopaedist, b. at Bargemont in the Diocese of Frejus, France,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913