encyclopedist
Americannoun
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a compiler of or contributor to an encyclopedia.
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(often initial capital letter) one of the collaborators on the French Encyclopedia.
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Etymology
Origin of encyclopedist
First recorded in 1645–55; encycloped(ia) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Then again, that distinction raises tricky questions, like, what’s the difference between a journalist and an encyclopedist who are both chronicling a pandemic in real time?
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2020
Until the moment, in the late seventeen-forties, when he was asked to undertake the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was mainly a figure of the low Enlightenment, and might have seemed a quite improbable encyclopedist.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
The even more illustrious geometer Jean le Rond d’Alembert, who as well as being a mathematician was Diderot’s fellow encyclopedist, was the toast of the most fashionable Paris salons.
From Slate • Nov. 19, 2014
In 1992 came Professor Furbank’s “Diderot: A Critical Biography,” about the 18th-century French novelist, philosopher, dramatist and encyclopedist.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014
Among the writings of the encyclopedist Diderot we find a famous dialogue, The Nephew of Ramau, which no less a person than Goethe has translated into German.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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