encyclopedist
noun
a compiler of or contributor to an encyclopedia.
encyclopaedist
-
a variation of
encyclopedist.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
To attempt to tell you seriatim and in detail just what they are like is the task of an encyclopaedist.
From The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White
This order comprised the rich banker and the beggar at his gate, the learned encyclopaedist and the water-carrier that could not spell his name.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
The poor lad's head was full of this encyclopaedist trash.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Ivan Petrovich's former tutor, the retired Abbé and encyclopaedist, had satisfied himself with pouring all the collective wisdom of the eighteenth century over his pupil; and so the pupil existed, saturated with it.
From Liza "A nest of nobles" by William Ralston Shedden Ralston
