encyclopedist
or en·cy·clo·pae·dist
a compiler of or contributor to an encyclopedia.
(often initial capital letter) one of the collaborators on the French Encyclopedia.
Origin of encyclopedist
1Words Nearby encyclopedist
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How to use encyclopedist in a sentence
Even when the great medieval encyclopedists were aware of alphabetical order, they had frequently disdained it.
From Encyclopedias to Telephone Books, How Alphabetization Took Over the Modern World | Judith Flanders | October 28, 2020 | TimeThus it would be hard to escape contact with some group or other; only an encyclopedist could ever be half sure he had done so.
Instigations | Ezra PoundThis was a scholar, a writer, an encyclopedist of to-morrow who liked the big Scot and to be in his company.
Foes | Mary JohnstonBefore the Revolution it was the encyclopedist Condorcet who principally took the field for the equal rights of both sexes.
Woman under socialism | August BebelThough shaken to his very center, the pride of the encyclopedist did not as yet give way.
Ursula | Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for encyclopedist
encyclopaedist
/ (ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪst) /
a person who compiles or contributes to an encyclopedia
Derived forms of encyclopedist
- encyclopedism or encyclopaedism, noun
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