"You're a veritable walking encyclopaedist, Lieutenant, " Vuillard said, 'so tell me what damage your shells did today?. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
The trio arrived in Paris in November, and were greatly befriended by their countryman, Grimm, the encyclopaedist, secretary to the Duke of. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference
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 Goldsmith. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference
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 left his mark as a theologian, encyclopaedist, linguist, historian, geographer, pharmacist and physician. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Sciences in the Islamic World] Reference
An encyclopaedist, b. at Bargemont in the Diocese of Frejus, France. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
After the encyclopaedist of the middle ages come, naturally, their philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4] Reference
To attempt to tell you seriatim and in detail just what they are like is the task of an encyclopaedist. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
Being an encyclopaedist and "one of those already mentioned who served the Republic nobly," Montriveau was killed at Novi near Joubert's side. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Eve of the French Revolution] Reference
I told him about it, I used to see a good deal of him; and, Chevalier of several orders though he was, he only laughed; he was an encyclopaedist. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchesse De Langeais] Reference
A list of notable scholars in Europe in the Dark Ages (by which I assume you mean from the end of the Western Empire in 476 to the early 11th century) would include Isidore of Seville, the great encyclopaedist (d. 636), Bede, the historian (d. 735), and Alcuin, the theologian and polymath (d. 804). From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Scandinavia) with the belief of the Spanish Visigothic encyclopaedist, Bishop Isidore of Seville 560-632), that the Goths were descendants of the Biblical giant Magog. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SUIOGOTHIC.] Reference
(Paris, September 11, 1778, to his father, who was on a friendly footing with the French encyclopaedist Grimm since the first artistic tour made with little Wolfgang in 1763, when he owed many favors to Grimm. From Wordnik.com. [Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words]
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