Associations to the word «Encyclopedist»

Wiktionary

ENCYCLOPEDIST, noun. 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.
ENCYCLOPEDIST, noun. A person helping to write an encyclopedia.

Dictionary definition

ENCYCLOPEDIST, noun. A person who compiles information for encyclopedias.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne