Definition of encyclopedist in English:
encyclopedist
(also encyclopaedist)
nounɛnˌsʌɪklə(ʊ)ˈpiːdɪstɪnˌsʌɪklə(ʊ)ˈpiːdɪst
A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
百科全书编纂者（或撰稿人）
Example sentencesExamples
- As early as 1748 the Dutch journalist and encyclopedist Egbert Buys reflected on the complexities involved.
- The subject also attracted numerous cosmographers, geographers, encyclopedists and writers of belle letters.
- Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist, listed a number of such techniques in his Historial Naturalis.
- Whilst the encyclopaedist might hope to encompass all within a carefully related and indexed space, the dictionary maker aspires to the more seductive task of defining principal concepts and ideas.
- He was one of those encyclopedists who seemed to excel at everything: He studied medicine, chemistry, natural history, and geology, and he was the first to recognize the volcanic nature of the Auvergne area.
- The same argument was taken up again by the encyclopedist Denis Diderot in 1763, after he was commissioned by the Paris Book Guild to write a Letter on the Book Trade.