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n. - A person who compiles (or writes for) books of knowledge.

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  • "You're a veritable walking encyclopaedist, Lieutenant, " Vuillard said, 'so tell me what damage your shells did today?
  • The trio arrived in Paris in November, and were greatly befriended by their countryman, Grimm, the encyclopaedist, secretary to the Duke of
  • The spacious rooms within it have some literary interest, as at one time occupied by Ephraim Chambers, the encyclopaedist (1680-1750), and by the more famous Oliver...
  • Here was a polymath with a free-ranging and formidable intellect: not only did he make significant breakthroughs as a philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, but he also...
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