encyclopedist

American  

[en-sahy-kluh-pee-dist] / ɛnˌsaɪ kləˈpi dɪst /

Or encyclopaedist

noun

1. a compiler of or contributor to an encyclopedia.

2. (often initial capital letter) one of the collaborators on the French Encyclopedia.

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encyclopedist British  

/ ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪst /

noun

1. a person who compiles or contributes to an encyclopedia

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Other Word Forms

• encyclopedism noun

Etymology

Origin of encyclopedist

First recorded in 1645–55; encycloped(ia) + -ist

Example Sentences

Then again, that distinction raises tricky questions, like, what’s the difference between a journalist and an encyclopedist who are both chronicling a pandemic in real time?

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2020

Until the moment, in the late seventeen-forties, when he was asked to undertake the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was mainly a figure of the low Enlightenment, and might have seemed a quite improbable encyclopedist.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

The even more illustrious geometer Jean le Rond d’Alembert, who as well as being a mathematician was Diderot’s fellow encyclopedist, was the toast of the most fashionable Paris salons.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2014

In 1992 came Professor Furbank’s “Diderot: A Critical Biography,” about the 18th-century French novelist, philosopher, dramatist and encyclopedist.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014

Whether the Hebrew encyclopedist was influenced by the example of Dr. Tobias Cohn's Ma'aseh Tobiah mentioned above, or was unconsciously imbued with the prevailing tendency of the times, it is impossible to tell.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.