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encyclopedist

noun
/ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpiː.dɪst/US

Etymology

From encyclopedia + -ist.

  1. derived from ἐγκύκλιος
  2. derived from ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ — “education in the circle of arts and sciences”
  3. borrowed from encyclopēdīa, encyclopaedīa — “general education”
  4. suffixed as encyclopedist — “encyclopedia + ist”

Definitions

  1. A member of a group of French authors who collaborated in the 18th century in the…

    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.

  2. An author of, or contributor to, an encyclopedia.

    • The root of the mallow in goat's milk excites the sexual urge, according to Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist of the first century A.D.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for encyclopedist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA